Who Goes Home?
Scenes from a Political Life
$65.30
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2000
Summary
Each night when the House of Commons rises, throughout the Palace of Westminster policemen shout, ‘Who goes home’, a relic of the days when Members of Parliament were escorted safely to their beds.
WHO GOES HOME is Roy Hattersley’s witty and characteristically frank account of a lifetime in the Labour party from schoolboy canvassing in post-war Sheffield through Cabinet office and the wilderness years in Opposition, to the decision to leave Parliament at the dawn of Tony Blair’s New L…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349116921 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034911692X |
| Author: | Roy Hattersley |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 131mm x 200mm |
Critics Review
‘Scintillating . will beguile many who have not the slightest regard for politics’ Brian Walden, SUNDAY TIMES *‘The sheer zest for the political life - together with a refreshing absence of malice - permeates every page’ THE TIMES *‘Highly intelligent’ Michael Foot, MAIL ON SUNDAY *‘something wonderful on every page’ TIME OUT
Roy Hattersley
Roy Hattersley is a politician-turned-writer. He was elected to Parliament in 1964, and served in each of Harold Wilson’s governments as well as Jim Callaghan’s Cabinet before becoming deputy leader of the Labour Party in 1983. He is the author of fourteen books.
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