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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The Prime Ministers Who Never Were
A Collection of Political Counterfactuals
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Prime Minister Austen Chamberlain splits the Tories
- Prime Minister Clynes stifles the Nazi menace
- Prime Minister Halifax attempts peace with Hitler
- Prime Minister Mosley and the United States of Europe
- Prime Minister Morrison and municipal socialism
- Prime Minister Gaitskell sends troops to Vietnam
- Prime Minister Butler and the Democratic Centralist Party
- Prime Minister George Brown and Charles de Gaulle
- Prime Minister Tebbit walks away from Maastricht
- Prime Minister Foot saves the economy and the Labour government
- Prime Minister Healey cuts Thatcherism short
- Prime Minister Kinnock links with the Liberals and abolishes the Lords
- Prime Minister Smith looks to Brussels, not Washington
- Prime Minister David Miliband creates a Lab-Lib coalition
- Contributor biographies
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