The Strange Death of Tory England - Softcover

Wheatcroft, Geoffrey

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9780141018676: The Strange Death of Tory England

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ISBN 10: 0141018674 ISBN 13: 9780141018676

Publisher: Penguin, 2005

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Paperback. Pub Date: September. 2005 Pages: 344 Publisher: Penguin Has the most successful Species in itish political History a finally become Extinct the Conservative Party dominated itish politics for 120 years from Disraeli's Victory in 1874 culminating in an unprecedented eighteen-year spell in government after 1979. And yet at the very end of the century the Tories imploded so disastrously as to suggest the party might be doomed to follow the Liberals into oblivion. Geoffrey Wheatcroft has observed this extraordinary drama at close hand. interviewing all the key players on (and. more often. off) the record. In this provocative and often acerbically funny book he examines how the Tories came to enjoy their unlikely triumph - and their spectacular decline.

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Has the most successful species in British political history finally become extinct? The Conservative party dominated British politics for 120 years from Disraeli's victory in 1874, culminating in an unprecedented eighteen-year spell in government after 1979. And yet at the very end of the century the Tories imploded so disastrously as to suggest the party might be doomed to follow the Liberals into oblivion.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft has observed this extraordinary drama at close hand, interviewing all the key players on (and, more often, off) the record. In this provocative and often acerbically funny book he examines how the Tories came to enjoy their unlikely triumph - and their spectacular decline.

Review:

'Thoroughly enjoyable...we get all the gossip: the bitterness, rancour and contumely, and there are several smoking guns’ -- Rod Liddle, Sunday Times

‘A rattling good read’ -- Spectator

‘Every page of this book is a firework party, full of great sparks and explosions' -- Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

‘Immensely readable and sardonic ... one puts the book down chuckling, as well as feeling wiser’ -- Peregrine Worsthorne, New Statesman

‘Rarely has a wake proved so much fun' -- Sunday Times

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