Bloody panico! : or, whatever happened to the Tory Party
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey2024
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The Tory Party has been in power for eighty-five of the past 135 years. In 2019 they won their largest parliamentary majority in more than three decades. They have had a long way to fall since, and they've done it at incredible speed. As Geoffrey Wheatcroft shows, we have witnessed not simply the collapse of the party but the shattering of its very foundations. 'Bloody Panico!' opens the sorry tale with the Tories' return to power in 2010, with 'Call Me Dave' Cameron at the helm. The turmoil of the referendum followed, as Boris championed a Leave campaign he didn't believe in for supporters with no clear idea what they were demanding. Beyond the pantomime of Boris, Truss's kamikazee premiership, and the squirming managerial tedium of Sunak, the party is riven by resentment and confusion.
Main title:
Bloody panico! : or, whatever happened to the Tory Party / Geoffrey Wheatcroft.
Author:
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, author
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2024.
Collation:
176 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781804295755 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
324.24104324.241
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2700666
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