Coalition Monsters
Colin Kidd, 6 March 2014
In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government
by Matthew D’Ancona.
Penguin, 414 pp., £25, October 2013,978 0 670 91993 2 Show More
by Matthew D’Ancona.
Penguin, 414 pp., £25, October 2013,
“... coalitions. Only very occasionally, when the whips are thwarted by force of circumstance, do the voters – and indeed a frustrated cadre of pragmatic and independent-minded politicians – escape the iron cage of partisan constraint. In early 1974 Britain seemed divided and ungovernable, with Ted Heath’s Conservative government blown off course by ... ”