After all, doesn't the buck stop with the Prime Minister on 10 Downing Street?
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Can only second this question :Which policy are you thinking of as blameworthy?
July crisis and Britain's pre-war commitment to de facto alliances with Russia and France is pretty much all I was thinking of.
In the case of France, Grey also felt the need to reassure the Cabinet that the commitment wasn't fully binding when he made it, only to tell them that actually, it might as well have been during the July Crisis. Not a very honest guy, is what I'm getting at here.
But was Grey dishonest or just naive? Grey seems to have thought that he could stay out of a war as long as it was just Russia and Austria or Russia and Austria + Germany. He seems to have been completely clueless of what would happen: France couldn't let Russia be beaten and Britain could not let France be beaten. The logic of events take a long time for Grey to realize
Grey gets the flak because it was his job to run foreign policy The British cabinet isn't like the American Presidency. Cabinet ministers are responsible to the party and not to the PM Grey could do as he pleased most of the time. He just didn't know what he was getting into