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Publisher
The Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2020
Description
This is a blistering narrative expose of infighting, skulduggery, and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party. The book draws on exceptional access throughout the Labour party and Corbyn's inner circle to reveal in full and for the first time the extraordinary story of Labour's tumultuous transformation in the last three years.
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Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The most torrid post-war period in politics has arguably been from 2010 to today. No one is better placed to give an insider's view than Rt Hon Dame Andrea Leadsom MP, who came into Parliament in the wake of both the financial crisis and the expenses scandal to experience at first hand the incredible highs and lows of the events that would follow.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Thirty-five years after the publication of 'A Very British Coup', former Labour MP Chris Mullin has written a compelling and timely sequel. In a near-future, post-Brexit Britain, the fault lines forged in the white heat of the referendum have become entrenched features of British political life. Britain's standing in the world has steadily diminished as its problems have grown. Into the maelstrom steps Fred Thompson, former aide to left-wing prime...
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Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Until Jeremy Corbyn's surprise election as leader of the Labour Party in 2015, this seemingly unelectable oddball had not been a major political player. Since then, Corbyn has survived coup attempts and accusations of incompetence that would have felled most politicians, including grave charges of anti-Semitism, bullying and not being the master of his brief. Despite these shortcomings, as the Conservatives rip themselves apart over Europe, he is...
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Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the most prominent and controversial figures in contemporary British politics. He is a man who divides opinion in his own party, in Parliament and across the country. Here, Michael Ashcroft, bestselling author of 'Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron', turns his attention to one of the most intriguing politicians of our time.
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Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Description
After a decade as Conservative Party leader, David Cameron remains an enigma to those outside his tight-knit inner circle. This biography of Britain's youngest Prime Minister for nearly 200 years provides a fascinating insight into the man only those closest to him know. Based on hundred of interviews, with everyone from Westminster insiders to intimate friends, this book reveals the real David Cameron.
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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...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020
Description
What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. For over two decades she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one; the travel, the security, the challenges to family life and the unpredictable events. A professional partner, as well as a life partner, and one with strong political opinions herself, she detonates the image of the dutiful stereotype....
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Publisher
Hutchinson
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Richard Littlejohn delivers the coup de grace to New Labour. He is not only tough on Brown, but also takes a witty look at 'elf and safety', 'yuman rights', the surveillance society and all the bureacratic absurdities that make modern life worse than anything George Orwell ever imagined.
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2023
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In this gripping work of contemporary history, one of Britain's leading political and social commentators maps Boris Johnson's time in power across ten decisive moments and sheds light on the most divisive and inscrutable prime minister since Margaret Thatcher. Based on major interviews with key aides and allies, Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell give the first account of Johnson's explosive time in office.
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Publisher
Guardian Books
Pub. Date
2021
Description
'It's now becoming easier and easier to predict government policy. Just listen to what the prime minister said in the morning and the opposite is likely to be true come the middle of the afternoon.' Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation with a much-needed injection of humour. In 'A Farewell to Calm', Crace introduces an infectiously funny...
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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.
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Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The year that led up to 7th May 2015 determined not just who governed Britain but the future of the country itself. Night after night Nick Robinson wrote in his private notebook what he saw and heard and thought after a day spent broadcasting from the campaign trail and the House of Commons, or interviewing the nation's political leaders. It records his insider's view of the extraordinary events he reported on day after day to millions of viewers...
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Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Picking up where he left off in 2010's 'Decline and Fall', celebrated diarist Chris Mullin returns with his trademark irreverence and keen eye for the absurd to chronicle the turbulent last decade of the second Elizabethan era. 'Didn't You Use to Be Chris Mullin?' charts the collapse of New Labour, the long years of austerity politics, the highs and lows of Brexit, the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn and no fewer than four Tory Prime Ministers, culminating...