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The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?
David Walker
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Description for The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?
Paperback. As the dust settles on Labour's time in office, Toynbee and Walker strip away political rhetoric and spin and investigate their failures and achievements in a lively, comprehensive, acerbic analysis. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238.
Did the Labour government improve people's lives? Are we healthier, wealthier or wiser; happier or safer than in 1997, when Labour came to power? If we are, how much do we have to thank Blair and Brown and their cabinets for? In The Verdict, Polly Toynbee and David Walker strip away spin, personality and political rhetoric to judge how our lives have changed. They consider Labour's lasting legacy and what its successors can learn from Labour's performance. Travelling the country, Toynbee and Walker compare Labour's promises with people's own accounts of what they experienced in recent years. They drop ... Read more
Did the Labour government improve people's lives? Are we healthier, wealthier or wiser; happier or safer than in 1997, when Labour came to power? If we are, how much do we have to thank Blair and Brown and their cabinets for? In The Verdict, Polly Toynbee and David Walker strip away spin, personality and political rhetoric to judge how our lives have changed. They consider Labour's lasting legacy and what its successors can learn from Labour's performance. Travelling the country, Toynbee and Walker compare Labour's promises with people's own accounts of what they experienced in recent years. They drop ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847082503
SKU
V9781847082503
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-45
About David Walker
POLLY TOYNBEE & DAVID WALKER have co-authored Unjust Rewards: Exposing Greed and Inequality in Britain Today, as well as audits of Labour's first and second terms: Did Things Get Better? and Better or Worse, Did Labour Deliver? POLLY TOYNBEE is an author and a political and social commentator for the Guardian. DAVID WALKER was founding editor of Public magazine. ... Read more
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