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5 Days to Power: The Journey to Coalition Britain
Author(s): Rob Wilson (Author)
- Publisher: Biteback
- Publication Date: 15 Nov. 2010
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 1849540810
- ISBN-13: 9781849540810
Book Description
With unique access to key figures involved from all three political parties Rob Wilson MP tells the story of the coalition talks in a manner and depth in which it has not been told before. In 5 Days to Power Rob Wilson sheds further light and answers questions to which the negotiators themselves would have dearly loved to know the answers, including: Which concessions were genuinely necessary to persuade the other party to agree to a full coalition? What, in fact, was Labour offering in their desperate bid to stay in power? Could they have delivered it in any case? What was said in the one-to-one meetings between the Party leaders? Why did the Conservatives decide to offer a referendum on the Alternative Vote? When was the Liberal Democrat decision to do the deal with the Conservatives actually taken? 5 Days To Power gives the first full account of the negotiations that led to the political earthquake of a Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`Laws offers fresh insights in a gripping narrative. Wilson, then a Tory whip, provides a balanced and revealing instant history’.
–Peter Riddell, TLS
–Peter Riddell, TLS
About the Author
Rob Wilson is the Conservative MP for Reading East. He is a former Conservative Party whip and Shadow Minister for Higher Education and is currently PPS to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt MP.
