Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit
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Philip Webster. Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit
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Dedication
Contents
Introduction
A Nervous Breakdown as Britain Votes ‘Out’
John and Edwina: The Liverpool Novel
1970s: Scary Days in the Commons Gallery
Return of The Thunderer
The Iron Lady: Early Lobby Years
How I Upset the Commons by Doing My Job
The Foreign Secretary Who Never Was
Dangerous Travelling with Thatcher
Some Stories Are Just Too Good …
Westland and Wapping Wars
A Horse, A Horse – My Paper for a Horse
The Lobby Lunch
Madrid – and Dominic Lawson’s Star Turn
Thatcher’s Fall, Major’s Arrival – and How the Rugby Team Might Have Saved Her
Kinnock and the White House Stitch-Up
As Thatcher Rules, Labour Battles for Its Soul
Was She Crying? Oh Yes, She Was: Glenys on the West Bank
Held at Gunpoint in the African Bush
Jenkins, Owen, Steel: Third Party Hell
John Smith: Britain’s Lost PM
After 1992, the Deluge
Carrying On up the Khyber
A Day in the Life of a Political Editor
1997: Granita and All That
My Part in Keeping Britain Out of the Euro
Taking a Punt on the 2001 Election
Tony and Gordon: Give Me the Euro, I’ll Give You Britain
The Naked Chancellor
Robin Cook Interrupted My Golf Swing
Our Small Part in Winning the Olympics
The Hand of History on a Snowy Good Friday
Why They Sack – and Why They Regret It
Blair and Gaddafi
Blair and Iraq: A Legacy Damaged Beyond Repair
The Death of David Kelly
My Part in the Fall of Tony Blair
Gordon’s Three Missed Chances to Win
Mandelson Returns as the Wolves Gather
How James Purnell Took His Leave
The Final Coup
Leveson and the Lobby
The Mystery of Michael Portillo
How Michael Howard Handed It to David Cameron
David Miliband Blows It and Balls Falls Out with Brown
Cameron ‘Ate Us Up and Spat Us Out’
How the Grandees Tried to Enlist Alan Johnson
Could Miliband Have Stopped Corbyn?
Uncle Jeremy, the Sea-Green Incorruptible
Our Power-Driven Politicians
The Men Who Followed Delane
Goodbye to All That
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Publisher
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Goodbye to All That
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