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This new biography provides an account of the career of Reg Prentice, one of the most controversial figures in modern British political history. He remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period, and his defection was reflective of an important 'sea change' in British politics.

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"the strongest impression the book leaves on this reader is as a reminder of the weakness and fragmentation of the Labour right during the 1970s and the exposed position in which neo-revisionist social democrats such as Prentice and Jenkins found themselves"
(Peter Sloman, Contemporary British History 2014)

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Labour moderate
3. The rule of law
4. Stand up and be counted
5. Cabinet Cassandra
6. Retribution in Newham
7. Staging a fightback
8. Anti-party man
9. Crossing the Rubicon
10. Conservative member
11. Epilogue
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 7/31/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719088698, 978-0719088698
      ISBN10: 0719088690

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This new biography provides an account of the career of Reg Prentice, one of the most controversial figures in modern British political history. He remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period, and his defection was reflective of an important 'sea change' in British politics.

      Trade Review

      "the strongest impression the book leaves on this reader is as a reminder of the weakness and fragmentation of the Labour right during the 1970s and the exposed position in which neo-revisionist social democrats such as Prentice and Jenkins found themselves"
      (Peter Sloman, Contemporary British History 2014)

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction
      2. Labour moderate
      3. The rule of law
      4. Stand up and be counted
      5. Cabinet Cassandra
      6. Retribution in Newham
      7. Staging a fightback
      8. Anti-party man
      9. Crossing the Rubicon
      10. Conservative member
      11. Epilogue
      Bibliography

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