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''The detail of these diaries, and their comprehensive candour, offer unprecedented insights into the personal behaviour of many senior Labour politicians... The most readable political diary of the period'' Harold Lever, Spectator

Tony Benn''s second volume of diaries, which spans the years 1968-72, is a unique record of British politics as observed both from the heart of the Cabinet and the Labour Party.

George Brown''s spectacular resignation and Cecil King''s plot to overthrow Wilson are just two of the events which dominate the opening chapter, and introduce the last years of Labour''s increasingly demoralised government.

And for the first time in a political diary, Labour''s experience of Opposition after the unexpected and shattering defeat of 1970 is revealed. Here, too, are recorded the bitter arguments over the Common Market, in which Tony Benn emerged as the principal advocate of a referendum on Britain''s entry - and which foreshadowed the Lab

Office Without Power

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
      Published 5 October 1989
      ISBN-13 9780099634508
      978-0099634508

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''The detail of these diaries, and their comprehensive candour, offer unprecedented insights into the personal behaviour of many senior Labour politicians... The most readable political diary of the period'' Harold Lever, Spectator

      Tony Benn''s second volume of diaries, which spans the years 1968-72, is a unique record of British politics as observed both from the heart of the Cabinet and the Labour Party.

      George Brown''s spectacular resignation and Cecil King''s plot to overthrow Wilson are just two of the events which dominate the opening chapter, and introduce the last years of Labour''s increasingly demoralised government.

      And for the first time in a political diary, Labour''s experience of Opposition after the unexpected and shattering defeat of 1970 is revealed. Here, too, are recorded the bitter arguments over the Common Market, in which Tony Benn emerged as the principal advocate of a referendum on Britain''s entry - and which foreshadowed the Lab

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