Across the Floor
A Life in Dissenting Politics
On 20 June 1998 Peter Temple-Morris, Conservative MP for Leominster, crossed the floor to join his rivals on the Labour party benches. What drove a seasoned Conservative politician - one of the so-called 'Cambridge Mafia', with 24 years' experience as a Conservative MP - to change his allegiance so radically? In this memoir of a long and varied political career, Temple-Morris answers this question, unveiling the slow, gradual process of disillusionment with the Conservative party, especially under Margaret Thatcher, and the growing appeal of the New Labour movement under Tony Blair. As well as providing an important overview of British domest…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85772-655-1
- EAN: 9780857726551
- Produktnummer: 22565527
- Verlag: I.B.Tauris
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 20'184 KB
Über den Autor
Lord (Peter) Temple-Morris is a Labour peer. He was elected as the Conservative MP for Leominster in 1974 and sat as a Conservative MP until 1998 when he crossed the floor to the Labour benches. He remained an MP until 2001.
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