Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin - Couverture souple

McBride, Damian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785908383 ISBN 13 : 9781785908385

Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

“Explosive” – Daily Telegraph | “Utterly gripping” – The Scotsman | “Racy, lucid and very well-informed” – Evening Standard | “Devastatingly forthright” – Sunday Times | “50 shades of Labour skullduggery” – Daily Mail

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From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon Brown’s inner circle before a notorious scandal propelled him out of Downing Street and onto the front pages. When he released his memoir Power Trip in 2013, its frank depiction of the dirty work that props up British politics was greeted with shock, disgust and awe. Never before had the lid been blown off the Westminster system with such ferocity. Throughout the book, McBride made no effort to cleanse his reputation; instead, he sought relentlessly to expose the manipulation, plotting and skullduggery that lay at New Labour’s core.

Ten years on, Power Trip remains the essential guide to understanding the murky underbelly of modern politics and how it can shape and corrupt those who inhabit it for too long. Now updated with a new foreword, this is the 10th anniversary edition of the most explosive political memoir of the past decade.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Damian McBride was born in North London in 1974, the youngest of four brothers. He was educated at Finchley Catholic High School and read history at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He joined HM Customs and Excise as a fast stream civil servant in 1996, and moved to the Treasury in 1999. In 2003, he became the Treasury’s Head of Communications, reporting directly to Gordon Brown. After the 2005 election, he left the civil service to become the Chancellor’s political adviser, a role he maintained when Brown became Prime Minister in 2007. He was sacked in April 2009 after emails from him emerged planning a smear campaign against senior Tory politicians. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Power Trip.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Biteback Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785908383
• ISBN 13: 9781785908385
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible