Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries 1992-1997 - Couverture rigide

Brandreth, Gyles

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9781849545907: Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries 1992-1997

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ISBN 10 : 1849545901 ISBN 13 : 9781849545907

Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2014

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Gyles Brandreth's revealing journal paints an extraordinary portrait of Whitehall and Westminster in our time warts and all. Brandreth MP for Chester and government whip enjoyed a ringside seat at the great political events of the 1990s, from the fall of Margaret Thatcher to the election of Tony Blair. With candid descriptions of the key figures of the era, from the leading players to the ministers who fell from grace, and a cast that includes the Queen, Bill Clinton and Joanna Lumley, these widely acclaimed diaries provide a fascinating insight into both the reality of modern government and the bizarre life of a parliamentary candidate and new MP. Controversially, Breaking the Code also contains the first ever insider's account of the hitherto secret world that is the Government Whips Office. This new, complete edition features material previously excised for legal reasons, as well as additional diaries that take the story on another ten years to the departure of Tony Blair and the arrival as Tory leader of David Cameron a bright young hopeful when Brandreth first meets him in 1993. A former Oxford scholar and president of the Oxford Union, Gyles Brandreth worked in theatre, television and publishing before becoming the Member of Parliament for the City of Chester and a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major's government.

Revue de presse :

By far the best political diary of recent years; far more perceptive and revealing than Alan Clark's. --Peter Riddell, The Times

Brandreth is the true Samuel Pepys of our day. --Andrew Neil, BBC Radio Five Live

Brandreth, for my money, offers about the most honest, and the most amusing, account of the demented, beery futility of the Tory-ruled Commons in the 1990s. --Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph

Hilariously acute ... Irresistible. --Matthew d'Ancona, Sunday Telegraph

Extremely touching ... Brandreth emerges as a decent, amusing, talented and charming man. --Simon Heffer, Daily Mail

As a witty and insightful chronicler ... Brandreth is unsurpassed. --Michael Simmons, The Spectator

A serious contribution to history as well as funny and touching.Breaking the Code is how politics genuinely is. --The Times

As a witty and insightful chronicler ... Brandreth is unsurpassed. --Michael Simmons, The Spectator

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