Fighters And Quitters
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Fighters And Quitters

Great Political Resignations

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fighters And Quitters

Great Political Resignations

About this book

They say the first rule of politics is never to resign. It seems, however, that Britain's leaders have all too often failed – or refused – to heed this sage advice.Fighters and Quitters charts the scandals, controversies and cock-ups that have obliterated dreams of high office, from the ex-minister who faked his death in the 1970s, to Geoffrey Howe's plot to topple Margaret Thatcher, to the many casualties of the Brexit saga. Then there are the sex and spy scandals that heralded doom and, of course, the infamous Profumo Affair.Who jumped and who was pushed? Who battled to keep their job and who collapsed at the first hint of pressure? Who returned, Lazarus-like, for a second act? From humiliating surrenders to principled departures, Fighters and Quitters lifts the lid on the lives of the politicians who fell on their own swords.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: When to Fight and When to Quit
  8. Chapter One: The Duchess of Atholl
  9. Chapter Two: John Profumo
  10. Chapter Three: Lords Lambton and Jellicoe
  11. Chapter Four: John Stonehouse
  12. Chapter Five: Jeremy Thorpe
  13. Chapter Six: Michael Heseltine and Leon Brittan
  14. Chapter Seven: Edwina Currie
  15. Chapter Eight: Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe
  16. Chapter Nine: Ron Davies
  17. Chapter Ten: Peter Mandelson
  18. Chapter Eleven: Stephen Byers
  19. Chapter Twelve: Robin Cook and Clare Short
  20. Chapter Thirteen: Liam Fox
  21. Chapter Fourteen: Chris Huhne
  22. Chapter Fifteen: Andrew Mitchell
  23. Chapter Sixteen: Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless
  24. Chapter Seventeen: Damian Green
  25. Afterword: The Never-Ending Scandal
  26. Selected Bibliography
  27. Index
  28. Copyright