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Giles Radice Articles

How New Labour built one nation

Labour needs to remember its considerable achievements in power, believes Giles Radice When on the morning of 12 May 1994 the tragic news broke of John Smith’s death, it became almost immediately obvious that the charismatic shadow home secretary, Tony Blair, then...
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John Biffen: Semi-Detached

I should begin by declaring that, for 24 years, John Biffen was my pair in the House of Commons. Pairing is the informal parliamentary arrangement whereby an MP of one party agrees with an MP of an opposing party not to vote in a particular division. This normally...
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Shirley Williams: The Biography

Mark Peel has written a perceptive, balanced and well-researched biography of Shirley Williams, one of the most gifted politicians of the last half-century. She was a Labour cabinet minister from 1974 to 1979, one of the founders of the Social Democratic party, and a...
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The Real Iron Lady

If you are expecting to read a high-powered analysis of Mrs Thatcher’s policies, then you are going to be disappointed. This book, written by the former Conservative cabinet minister, Gillian Shephard, is, however, valuable in its own right because it paints an...
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