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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
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.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions as on the first day he entered the House of Commons back in 1970. These are his memoirs.
Author
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.
10) Keir Hardie
Author
Publisher
Lion
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Keir Hardie was born just outside Glasgow in 1856. He was the sole earner in his family by the age of ten. He never went to school but was self-taught reading books lent to him by a clergyman. He was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party. This book explores the part Christianity played in his life.
11) Brown at 10
Author
Publisher
Biteback
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Gordon Brown's three years at No. 10 were the most turbulent of any premiership in the postwar history of Downing Street. This book tells for the first time the full story of the astonishing end of Brown's tenure, and with it the demise of the New Labour project.