Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher
John Gray: The Tory Future, 22 April 2010
The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron
by Tim Bale.
Polity, 446 pp., £25, January 2010,978 0 7456 4857 6 Show More
by Tim Bale.
Polity, 446 pp., £25, January 2010,
Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection
by Peter Snowdon.
Harper Press, 419 pp., £14.99, March 2010,978 0 00 730725 8 Show More
by Peter Snowdon.
Harper Press, 419 pp., £14.99, March 2010,
“... or been a more fluent speaker; if Howard had offered Cameron the shadow chancellorship or George Osborne had not accepted it – if these or any number of other contingencies had been otherwise, Cameron might not have become leader. Yet he has been perceived as an unstoppable force, the author of an irreversible transformation in his party that has set it ... ”