The Complete Reflections
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The Complete Reflections

Conversations with Politicians

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The Complete Reflections

Conversations with Politicians

About this book

On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK's governing parties during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Bringing together transcripts of the collected interviews for the first time, The Complete Reflections features interviews the biggest names from the Thatcher era, the New Labour years, and the coalition government of the 2010s. 

In The Complete Reflections, Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepherd provide not only an overview of the past three decades of British politics but also delve into the minds of those at the forefront of public life during times of great change. Hennessy's deep knowledge and understanding of the lives and motivations of his interviewees, along with the obvious esteem in which they hold their interlocutor, leads to frank and revealing conversations in which the subject is not an object but an equal, giving these exchanges a unique veracity. The results are portraits of high authority, in which interviews become the chronicles that endure above all others—nothing less than the first draft of history.

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Index

Abel-Smith, Brian, 41
Adair, John, 376
Adams, Gerry, 768–770
Addison, Paul, 322
Afghanistan, 54, 218, 533
Ahern, Bertie, 770
Ali, Tariq, 702
Allende, Salvador, 743–744
Ancram, Michael, 523
Angolan Civil War, the, 764–765
Arab Spring, the, 432, 433
Argentina, 214, 743
Armstrong, William, 388
Arnold-Forster, Val, 10
Ashdown, Paddy (Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon), xi, 533–562
Asquith, Herbert Henry (H H), 165, 210, 402
Attlee, Clem, 2, 3, 9–11, 17, 28, 33, 68, 69, 80, 128, 137, 223, 225–226, 258, 378–379, 420
Baker, Kenneth (Lord Baker of Dorking), 19, 371–408
Balkans, the, 216, 556–557
Balls, Ed, 494
Bannerman, John, 154
Baroness Warsi, see Warsi, Sayeeda
Baroness Williams of Crosby, see Williams, Shirley
Beckett, Dame Margaret, 171–193
Belhadj, Abdel Hakim, 54
Benn, Tony, 39, 43, 180, 181, 337, 421–422, 616, 760
Berkeley University, California, 756
Bessell, Peter, 166
Bevan, Aneurin (Nye Bevan), 28, 86–88, 90, 91, 100, 251, 279
Beveridge, William, 3, 80, 649
Bevin, Ernest, 5, 68, 69, 71–72
Biffen, John, 79, 389
Big Bang, the (deregulation of financial ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle
  3. FM
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Foreword by Melvyn Bragg
  9. Preface
  10. Shirley Williams (Baroness Williams of Crosby)
  11. Jack Straw
  12. Norman Tebbit (Lord Tebbit)
  13. Neil Kinnock (Lord Kinnock)
  14. John Major (Sir John Major)
  15. Roy Hattersley (Lord Hattersley)
  16. David Steel (Lord Steel of Aikwood)
  17. Margaret Beckett (Dame Margaret Beckett)
  18. David Owen (Lord Owen)
  19. Nigel Lawson (Lord Lawson of Blaby)
  20. Clare Short
  21. Michael Heseltine (Lord Heseltine)
  22. Vince Cable (Sir Vince Cable)
  23. Margaret Hodge (Dame Margaret Hodge)
  24. Kenneth Baker (Lord Baker of Dorking)
  25. Tony Blair
  26. William Hague (Lord Hague of Richmond)
  27. Harriet Harman
  28. Michael Howard (Lord Howard of Lympne)
  29. Paddy Ashdown (Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon)
  30. Sayeeda Warsi (Baroness Warsi)
  31. David Blunkett (Lord Blunkett)
  32. Iain Duncan Smith (Sir Iain Duncan Smith)
  33. Chris Patten (Lord Patten of Barnes)
  34. Alan Johnson
  35. Norman Lamont (Lord Lamont of Lerwick)
  36. Peter Hain (Lord Hain of Neath)
  37. Picture Credits
  38. Index