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Title

Prime minister Portillo-- : and other things that never happened / edited by Duncan Brack and Iain Dale.

Publication

London : Politico's, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brack, Duncan.
• Dale, Iain, 1962-

Description

ix, 372 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"In this book a collection of distinguished commentators consider how things might have been otherwise. Among them are Sir Bernard Ingham, who ponders the consequences of Margaret Thatcher's resignation over the Westland crisis; John Charmley, who asks, 'What if Lord Halifax had become Prime Minister in 1940 instead of Churchill?'; and Anne Perkins, who wonders how the history of the Labour Party would have unfolded had Aneurin Bevan outlived Hugh Gaitskell." "Diverting and thought-provoking as they can be, counterfactuals also have a serious historical purpose, for close examination of what did not happen serves to test interpretations of what actually did happen, and provides a prism through which the great events can be viewed."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• World politics > 20th century
• Politics and government
• World politics
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Duncan Brack and Iain Dale -- What if the Liberal Party had emerged united from the First World War? / Richard S. Grayson -- What if Lenin's 'sealed' train had not reached Petrograd in 1917? / Helen Szamuely -- What if Halifax had become Prime Minister in 1940? / John Charmley -- What if the Liberal Party had broken through from the right? / James Parry -- What if Gaitskell, not Bevan, had died in 1960? / Anne Perkins -- What if the Liberal Party had disappeared in the 1950s? / Michael McManus -- What if Lee Harvey Oswald had missed? / Simon Burns -- What if the Conservatives had won in 1964? / John Barnes -- What if Harold Wilson and the unions had agreed In place of strife? / Robert Taylor -- What if Labour had won in 1970? / Greg Rosen -- What if Ted Heath had gone to the country three weeks earlier in February 1974? / Mark Garnett -- What if Ted Heath had stepped down in 1974? / Matthew Bailey and Philip Cowley -- What if Jim Callaghan had gone to the country in October 1978? / Paul Richards -- What if Roy Jenkins had joined the Liberal Party in 1981? / Neil Stockley -- What if Benn had beaten Healey in 1981? / Dianne Hayter -- What if the SDP-Liberal alliance had finished second in the 1983 general election? / Robert Waller -- What if Arthur Scargill had balloted the NUM in 1984? / David Mills -- What if Mrs. Thatcher had had to resign over Westland? / Bernard Ingham -- What if John Smith had lived? / Mark Stuart -- What if Paddy Ashdown had joined the Blair cabinet in 1997? / Stuart Thomson -- What if Michael Portillo hadn't lost his seat in 1997? / Iain Dale.

ISBN

• 1842750690
• 9781842750698

LCCN

2004426934

OCLC

• ocm54677177
• 54677177
• SCSB-14108096

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library