Prime Ministers Who Never Were - Softcover

Francis Beckett

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9781849543217: Prime Ministers Who Never Were

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849543216 ISBN 13: 9781849543217

Publisher: Biteback, 2012

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Politics is full of might-have-beens. What would have happened if Clynes had become Labour's first Prime Minister instead of MacDonald? If Halifax, rather than Churchill, had led Britain in the dark days of the war? If Hugh Gaitskell and John Smith had not been cut down by early death? In these essays, leading political commentators speculate about the course history might have taken but for a twist of fate.

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About the Author:

Francis Beckett's books include Gordon Brown, The Great City Academy Fraud, Clem Attlee and What Did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

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'It has long been said that the largest political club is that of ex future Prime Ministers to which Francis Beckett has nominated fourteen of us in this book. We know what really happened in the years we might have held office, but that was scarcely more likely that what might have been, and these speculations are perhaps more than just fun. They may be food for thought.' NORMAN TEBBIT

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