The Prime Ministers Who Never Were
eBook - ePub

The Prime Ministers Who Never Were

A Collection of Political Counterfactuals

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Prime Ministers Who Never Were

A Collection of Political Counterfactuals

About this book

Each of these chapters in this book of political counterfactuals describes a premiership that never happened, but might easily have done had the chips fallen slightly differently. The contributors, each of them experts in political history, have asked themselves questions like: what shape would the welfare state and the cold war have taken if the Prime Minister had been Herbert Morrison instead of Clement Attlee? What would have been consequences for Northern Ireland had Norman Tebbit succeeded Margaret Thatcher? How would our present life be different without New Labour - a name we would never have heard if either Kinnock or Smith had become Prime Minister and not Tony Blair? Each of the chapters in this book describes events that really might have happened. And almost did.

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Introduction
  3. Prime Minister Austen Chamberlain splits the Tories
  4. Prime Minister Clynes stifles the Nazi menace
  5. Prime Minister Halifax attempts peace with Hitler
  6. Prime Minister Mosley and the United States of Europe
  7. Prime Minister Morrison and municipal socialism
  8. Prime Minister Gaitskell sends troops to Vietnam
  9. Prime Minister Butler and the Democratic Centralist Party
  10. Prime Minister George Brown and Charles de Gaulle
  11. Prime Minister Tebbit walks away from Maastricht
  12. Prime Minister Foot saves the economy and the Labour government
  13. Prime Minister Healey cuts Thatcherism short
  14. Prime Minister Kinnock links with the Liberals and abolishes the Lords
  15. Prime Minister Smith looks to Brussels, not Washington
  16. Prime Minister David Miliband creates a Lab-Lib coalition
  17. Contributor biographies