Political Strategy

Including ten extended interviews with key political players such as Charles Kennedy, Norman Lamont and Tony Wright, the book combines the theoretical discussion with select case studies producing a series of narrow pieces of contemporary history. The book is a study of contemporary British politics, producing a strategic history of the period. This ranges from the ascension of Thatcherism, to the rise of New Labour; the leadership decline of Foot to the deterioration of Duncan Smith; The disorder endured by Major to the struggles of Kinnock; the battle lines between Blair and Howard; the creation of the SDP, the spawning of the Liberal Democrats and its future under Kennedy.