Part One: Prelude
- The Platonic Idea and the Constitutional Deal
- Continuity and Cottage Pie
Part Two: The Premiership
- The Double-Headed Nation
- Organized by History: The Premiership Before 1945
- Beyond any Mortal? The Stretching of the Premiership Since 1945
- Where the Buck Stops: Premiers, ‘War Cabinets’ and Nuclear War Planning Since 1945
Part Three: The Prime Ministers
- A Sense of Architectonics: Clement Attlee, 1945-51
- In History Lie All the Secrets: Winston Churchill, 1951-55
- The Colonel and the Drawing Room: Anthony Eden, 1955-57
- Quiet, Calm Deliberation: Harold Macmillan, 1957-63
- Country Values: Alec Douglas-Home, 1963-64
- Centre Forward: Harold Wilson, 1964-1970
- The Somersaulting Modernizer: Edward Heath, 1970-74
- Centre Half: Harold Wilson, 1974-76
- The Sea-Changer: James Callaghan, 1976-79
- A Tigress Surrounded by Hamsters: Margaret Thatcher, 1979-90
- The Solo-Coalitionist: John Major, 1990-97
- Command and Control: Tony Blair, 1997–
Part Four: Coda
- The Premier League: The Inevitability of Disappointment
- Toward a New Specification: Premiership for the Twenty-First Century
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