Going for Gould
R.W. Johnson, 23 July 1987
Apocalypse 2000: Economic Breakdown and the Suicide of Democracy 1989-2000
by Peter Jay and Michael Stewart.
Sidgwick, 254 pp., £12.95, June 1987,0 283 99440 1 Show More
by Peter Jay and Michael Stewart.
Sidgwick, 254 pp., £12.95, June 1987,
“... élite has been less remarked upon. In the Sixties Labour’s Front Bench was dominated by Oxford graduates – often by Oxford dons. Over the last two decades that élite has been progressively squeezed out, so that in 1987, for the first time in over half a century, Labour went into the election with a leader and ... ”