Description
Book SynopsisThis 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), Peter Sloman, New College, Oxford University, Contemporary British History, 2014
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Table of Contents1. 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
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