Pre-order Andrew Adonis’ new book ‘5 Days In May’ at the special Progress readers’ rate of £10
‘Is a deal still possible?’ Nick Robinson texted me at 3.26 a.m. on election night.
‘Everything looks possible,’ I texted back.
One of the great dramas of modern British politics unfolded in the wake of the inconclusive 2010 general election. This is the first account from Gordon Brown’s Downing Street of those five days of fraught negotiation. Written in the heat of battle by a key Labour insider, it captures the electric excitement as events took their course, and reflects on the nature of coalition government and what lies ahead.
At the heart of the Blair and Brown governments for twelve years, Andrew Adonis was a member of the Labour team engaged in the coalition negotiations that followed the general election of 2010. In 1998 he joined the No. 10 Policy Unit before entering the House of Lords in 2005 and becoming Minister for Schools until 2008. This decade of pioneering education reform – in particular the creation of the academies programme – is the subject of his previous book Education, Education, Education, also published by Biteback. Under Gordon Brown, he moved to the Department for Transport, first as Railways Minister, then as Secretary of State. Before joining government, Andrew Adonis was a journalist on the Financial Times and The Observer. He was previously a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, where he gained his PhD. His previous books include studies of Parliament, the English class system and the rise and fall of the poll tax.
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I could not think of anything worse than to read an outdated scribe by an individual who is as defunct in terms of ideas and charisma and outmoded in terms of popularity and philosophy.
Ed Miliband needs to cementt his view that more of the same failure, particularly this individuals influence on returning Labour to the opposition. And he wants activists to read his book.
Laughable.
It would be great if the departure lounge was full with a spare ticket for lightweight Stephen Twigg.
More of the same simply will not get Labour elected
Time for real change
“ere Doris” “wot Edna ” “didn’t Ed look luvly in them photos in the Mail” “Oh ‘e did D. he did
some of the nicest photos I’ve seen of ‘im ,funny innit ,fink their photo bloke must be on the turn to Labour still that’s workin’ blokes for you ” ” did you read wot that Martha said ,like a right stampy foot child ; now daddy now now now ” ! ” silly moo, s’not like deciding which jacket to wear dear ” !