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Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2016
Description
This is a total re-evaluation of New Labour and Blair's years in power, with a focus on five areas: health, education, immigration, energy, and war. And then there's the more personal angles too - Blair's battle with Gordon Brown, his relations with the Palace, his private life and his controversial ventures since office.
Author
Publisher
HarperPress
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The first published memoirs by one of New Labour's three founding members. Frank, honest and revealing, it presents a dramatic first-hand narrative of a historic period of change in British politics and lays bare Peter Mandelson's intimate, complex relationship with Britain's two New Labour Prime Ministers.
Author
Publisher
Hutchinson
Pub. Date
2016
Description
On the night of 7 May 2015, Ed Balls thought there was a chance he would wake up the next morning as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead, he woke up without a job. For two decades he had occupied a central position within Labour, rising from adviser to Cabinet Minister during the years in power, and Shadow Chancellor in Opposition. Throughout one of the most tumultuous periods in recent British history, he made a point of speaking out, whatever...
Author
Publisher
Profile
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Chris Mullin's bestselling 'A View From the Foothills' provided a riveting insider's account of life as a junior minister. Funny and self-deprecating, the new diaries run from his sacking by Blair as a minister after the 2005 elections to Election Day 2010 as he prepares to step down after 23 years as an MP.
9) A journey
Author
Publisher
Hutchinson
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Tony Blair's own account of his political life, his rise to power, his life on the world stage, and the clashes, controversies and triumphs of one of the most successful political careers of modern times.
Author
Publisher
Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight' and provide retrospective justification for their careers. That is not the case with this book. Chris Patten's career has taken him from the outer London suburbs to the House of Commons, a seat in the Cabinet, last Governor of Hong Kong, Chairman of the BBC and Chancellor of Oxford University. About all of these he is enlightening and entertaining.
Author
Publisher
Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Niccolo Machiavelli is misunderstood, argues Jonathan Powell in his 21st-century reworking of the Italian philosophers influential masterpiece, 'The Prince'. Taking the lessons Machiavelli derived from his experience as an official in 15th-century Florence, Powell shows how these lessons can still apply today.
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is the most significant new party in British politics for a generation. In recent years UKIP and their charismatic leader Nigel Farage have captivated British politics, media and voters. Yet both the party and the roots of its support remain poorly understood. Where has this political revolt come from? Who is supporting them, and why? How are UKIP attempting to win over voters? And how far can their insurgency against...
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Niccolo Machiavelli is misunderstood, argues Jonathan Powell in his 21st-century reworking of the Italian philosophers influential masterpiece, 'The Prince'. Taking the lessons Machiavelli derived from his experience as an official in 15th-century Florence, Powell shows how these lessons can still apply today.
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Series
Description
'Power and the People' is the second of four volumes, and covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. It details an astonishing array of events and personalities, progress and setbacks, crises and scandals, as Labour make the transition from opposition to office.
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2011
Description
David Cameron has emerged as the first Tory leader in years to come across as a man of the people, an ordinary bloke in a reviled political position. But, spin-doctoring aside, not a great deal is known about his background, his family life or his gradual rise through the ranks of the party. This book tells his story.