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Crossing the Floor
Geoff Horn
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Description for Crossing the Floor
This new biography provides an account of the career of Reg Prentice, one of the most controversial figures in modern British political history. He remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period, and his defection was reflective of an important 'sea change' in British politics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period. His defection reflected an important 'sea change' in British politics; the end of the post-war consensus and the beginnings of the Thatcher era. This book examines the key events surrounding Prentice's transition from a front-line Labour politician to a Conservative minister in the first Thatcher government. It focuses on the shifting political climate in Britain during the 1970s, as the post-war settlement came under pressure from adverse economic conditions, militant trade unionism and an assertive New Left. Prentice's story provides ... Read more
Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period. His defection reflected an important 'sea change' in British politics; the end of the post-war consensus and the beginnings of the Thatcher era. This book examines the key events surrounding Prentice's transition from a front-line Labour politician to a Conservative minister in the first Thatcher government. It focuses on the shifting political climate in Britain during the 1970s, as the post-war settlement came under pressure from adverse economic conditions, militant trade unionism and an assertive New Left. Prentice's story provides ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719088698
SKU
V9780719088698
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About Geoff Horn
Geoff Horn teaches Politics at Newcastle University -- .
Reviews for Crossing the Floor
"the strongest impression the book leaves on this reader is as a reminder of the weakness and fragmentation of the Labour right during the 1970s and the exposed position in which neo-revisionist social democrats such as Prentice and Jenkins found themselves" (Peter Sloman, Contemporary British History 2014)
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