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Now in paperback, this is the book that was flung across the chamber of the House of Commons as it became the centrepiece of of battle between Tony Blair and Michael Howard.
David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he became Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son of a Sheffield steel worker achieve all this? And what motivates him now?
This fully updated biography is based on many hours of intimate conversation, covering not only his early life and blindness but also life on the government front bench -and his hopes for the future. As you would expect, Blunkett is candid in his opinions of his political allies and opponents - and unsparing in his analysis of his own performance.
David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he became Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son of a Sheffield steel worker achieve all this? And what motivates him now?
This fully updated biography is based on many hours of intimate conversation, covering not only his early life and blindness but also life on the government front bench -and his hopes for the future. As you would expect, Blunkett is candid in his opinions of his political allies and opponents - and unsparing in his analysis of his own performance.
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'The book at the centre of the home secretary's resignation.' (The Sunday Times )
'Timely and readable...a brilliant description of Blunkett the young Sheffield councillor. As with so much of his career, you couldn't make it up.' (Guardian )
'The puzzle Pollard has to explain is how the leader of the "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire" . . . transmogrified into the right-wing Home Secretary of today. The answer goes to the heart of the way British politics has evolved in the last 30 years.' (Independent )
'An exceptionally readable and interesting political biography.' (Petronella Wyatt, Sunday Telegraph )
'One has the sensation, turning the pages with horror, of watching a political career collapse in front of one's eyes. This is extraordinary stuff.' (Daily Telegraph )
'Pollard has shone a vivid spotlight on the seamy side of Blunkett's politics and on the seamy side of the Blair government' (David Marquand, Prospect )
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'Timely and readable...a brilliant description of Blunkett the young Sheffield councillor. As with so much of his career, you couldn't make it up.' (Guardian )
'The puzzle Pollard has to explain is how the leader of the "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire" . . . transmogrified into the right-wing Home Secretary of today. The answer goes to the heart of the way British politics has evolved in the last 30 years.' (Independent )
'An exceptionally readable and interesting political biography.' (Petronella Wyatt, Sunday Telegraph )
'One has the sensation, turning the pages with horror, of watching a political career collapse in front of one's eyes. This is extraordinary stuff.' (Daily Telegraph )
'Pollard has shone a vivid spotlight on the seamy side of Blunkett's politics and on the seamy side of the Blair government' (David Marquand, Prospect )
Stephen Pollard is a political columnist who writes regularly for British and American newspapers. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the New Europe, and at Civitas, the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, in London. He is co-author with Andrew Adonis of A Class Act - the Myth of Britain's Classless Society, which was shortlisted for the 1997 Orwell Prize. In 2003 he was a prize winner at the Bastiat awards for journalism.
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- PublisherHodder Paperbacks
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0340825359
- ISBN 13 9780340825358
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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