With Vince Cable’s recent interview comments reviving chatter over how old is too old to be an aspirant party leader and Prime Minister, what does the actual age profiles of our Prime Ministers look like?
Here are all our Premiers from this century and the last, showing at what age they first went into 10 Downing Street and at what age they exited it for the last time.
If anything, until the middle of the last century Prime Ministers were getting older. The story since, however, is very different.
[...] Mark Pack took the time and trouble to dig out the data. He showed that while the trend-line in the first half of the last century was for prime ministers [...]