Download or read book After Number 10 written by K. Theakston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having lost an election, been thrown out by their party, or retired on grounds of ill-health, what do former British prime ministers do? In the first book to look at the lives, political roles and influence of former prime ministers, Theakston analyzes all the former prime ministers from Walpole in the 18th century to Blair today.
Download or read book The Ex Men written by Giles Edwards and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men and women who created today's liberal, democratic, globalised world order may now have left public office, but they have not retired. So, what are they doing, and how does it affect the rest of us? In The Ex Men, Giles Edwards sets out to answer that question, uncovering the many ways in which former Presidents and Prime Ministers continue to affect global public life.From running international organisations to monitoring elections, advising companies and charities and giving hundred-thousand-dollar speeches, Giles takes us inside this often-hidden world. He has interviewed more than twenty former leaders, from Presidents overthrown in coups to winners of Nobel Prizes. He has spent time at their clubs and resorts, spoken to the people who work with them, and to the organisations and individuals who hire them.
Download or read book Prime Minister Manmohan Singh written by Manmohan Singh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Half In Half Out written by Andrew Adonis and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades since the end of the Second World War have seen massive change sweep across Britain's social, cultural and political landscape. Yet throughout this period, one thing has remained constant and unchanging: the thorny question of our relationship with Europe. Europe, and Britain's place in or out of it, has always been a hugely divisive factor – on either side of the political spectrum – creating warring camps in both the Labour and Conservative parties. Famous Europhiles to put their heads above the parapets over the years have included Conservatives Ted Heath and David Cameron, as well as Tony Blair for Labour, while leading Europhobes count among their number the former Conservative Prime Ministers Anthony Eden and Margaret Thatcher. Born out of a series of Oxford University lectures devised by the former director of the Number 10 Policy Unit, Andrew Adonis, Half in, Half Out presents a comprehensive and enlightening look at Britain's Prime Ministers of the past seven decades – and explores their often hugely differing attitudes towards our neighbours on the other side of the Channel. Starting with the premiership of Sir Winston Churchill, and ending with Theresa May, the book examines in fascinating and forensic detail the crucial relationships between our leaders and Europe. With each chapter written by a prominent political figure, including Sir Nicholas Soames, David Owen and Rachel Reeves, the book provides some hugely revealing portraits of Britain's former leaders, shining a light on their sometimes warm, and at other times downright hostile, attitudes towards Europe.
Download or read book The Accidental Prime Minister written by Sanjaya Baru and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The Accidental Prime Minister was published in 2014, it created a storm and became the publishing sensation of the year. The Prime Minister’s Office called the book a work of ‘fiction’, the press hailed it as a revelatory account of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first term in UPA. Written by Singh’s media adviser and trusted aide, the book describes Singh’s often troubled relations with his ministers, his cautious equation with Sonia Gandhi and how he handled the big crises from managing the Left to pushing through the nuclear deal. Insightful, acute and packed with political anecdotes, The Accidental Prime Minister is one of the great insider accounts of Indian political life.
Download or read book My Years as Prime Minister written by Jean Chretien and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime minister. By the time he left office, Jean Chrétien had been in politics for forty years – and his experience is evident on every page of his important, engaging memoir. Chrétien loves to tell a good tale – and he does so here in the same honest, plain-spoken style of Straight from the Heart, his earlier bestselling account of his years as a Cabinet minister. He gives us a self-portrait of a working prime minister – the passionate Canadian renowned for finishing every speech with Vive le Canada! Chrétien knows how government works, and his political instincts are sharp. Through the decade 1993 to 2003 we watch as he wins three majority elections as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Finding the country in a dreadful state, dangerously in debt and bitterly divided, he describes how his government wiped out the deficit in just four years, helped to defeat the separatists in the cliffhanger Quebec referendum, passed the Clarity Act, and set out to fulfill the economic and social promises his party made in its famous Red Books. He reveals how and why he kept the country out of the war in Iraq – a defining moment for many Canadians; led Team Canada on whirlwind trade missions around the world; and participated in a host of major international summits. Along with his astute comments on politics and government, he gives candid portraits of a broad cast of characters. Over a beer, Tony Blair confides his hesitation about taking Britain into the Iraq War; in the corridors of the United Nations, Bill Clinton offers to speak to Quebecers on behalf of Canadian unity; while at home, Chrétien reveals the events leading up to the departure of his finance minister, Paul Martin. He recounts the dramatic night in which his quick-thinking wife, Aline, saved him from an assassination attempt at 24 Sussex Drive; and, with lively humour, he describes how he and Clinton successfully escaped from their own bodyguards – to the consternation of all. Even in the highest office in the land, Jean Chrétien never lost his connection with ordinary Canadians. He is as warm and funny in his recollections as in person, at once combative and cool-headed, a man full of vitality and charm. Above all, from start to finish, his love for his country and his passion to keep it united run clear and deep.
Download or read book The Hands of the Prime Minister written by Laurent Lamothe and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photojournalist Philip Holsinger and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe together look at what underlies the successful policies and attitudes of Lamothe's tenure as Prime Minister of Haiti. The book is a combination photo story and recorded conversations with oral history.
Download or read book The Impossible Office written by Anthony Seldon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 years, fifty-seven individuals have held the office of British Prime Minister - who have been the best and worst?
Download or read book The Impossible Office written by Anthony Seldon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why has the office of British Prime Minister lasted an incredible 300 years? Who have been the best, and worst?
Download or read book Rishi Sunak written by Williams George and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First British Asian to Become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Mr Rishi Sunak won the Conservative Party leadership election in October 2022 after Truss resigned due to a political crisis. Rishi Sunak, 42, is the youngest prime minister in modern history, surpassing his predecessor, David Cameron, who was 43 when appointed. His ascension to the top has been rapid. He was elected to the North Yorkshire constituency of Richmond in 2015 and joined the Cabinet in 2019. Mr Sunak was elected MP for Richmond in North Yorkshire in 2015 and served as a junior minister in former Prime Minister Theresa May's administration. His successor, Boris Johnson, .appointed him as chief secretary to the Treasury before promoting him to chancellor in February 2020. Mr Sunak was born in Southampton in 1980 toIndian immigrants from East Africa. His father was a general practitioner, while his mother had her own pharmacy. Rishi Sunak is the sixth Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in less than two months. It is the most rapid change of No. 10 leaders in almost a century. Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Mr Sunak have all held the top job since the summer of 2007. In the previous 28 years, there had only been three prime ministers: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair. What causes the revolving door at No. 10? Could this be the new normal in British politics? A panel of experts discusses why it looks that prime ministers are finding it more difficult to stay in office. This book will teach you all you need to know about Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...... You will also learn: His Childhood and Education His Professional Career His Political Background His position as Chancellor His Conservative Presidency His Private Life and Public Image His fortune And much more...... This book's production required enough time, effort, and study to ensure that you acquire all of the facts you could possible need about Rishi Sunak at once, and I'm certain you will if you pay careful attention to reading this book. Williams George, a well-known researcher, wrote this book. So why not scroll up and click the Buy now with 1-Click button to grab a copy of this book?
Download or read book The Prime Ministers written by Steve Richards and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK's role in the modern world - and what makes them special - by a seasoned political journalist.
Download or read book For the Record written by David Cameron and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Cameron was elected Conservative leader in 2005, promising to modernize the party following its three successive electoral defeats. He became Prime Minister in 2010, forming Britain’s first coalition government in 70 years, at a moment of economic crisis, and went on to win the first outright Conservative majority for 23 years at the 2015 general election. In For the Record, he will explain how the governments he led transformed the UK economy while implementing a modern, compassionate agenda that included reforming education and welfare, legalizing gay marriage, honoring the UK’s commitment to overseas aid and spearheading environmental policies. He will shed light on the seminal world events of his premiership—the Arab Spring; the rise of ISIS; the invasion of Ukraine; the conflicts in Libya, Iraq and Syria—as well as events at home, from the Olympic Games in 2012 to the Scottish referendum. He will provide, for the first time, his perspective on the EU referendum and his views on the future of Britain’s place in the world following Brexit. Revealing the battles and achievements of his life and career in intimate and frank detail, For the Record will be an important assessment of the significant political events of the last decade, the nature of power and the role of leadership at a time of profound global change.
Download or read book The Path to Power written by Margaret Thatcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her international bestseller, The Downing Street Years, Margaret Thatcher provided an acclaimed account of her years as Prime Minister. This second volume reflects on the early years of her life and how they influenced her political career.
Download or read book My Life Our Times written by Gordon Brown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory memoir from Britain's former Prime Minister offers vital insights into our extraordinary times. Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story. In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss of his eyesight as a student and the death of his daughter within days of her birth, he shares the passionately-held principles that have shaped and driven him, reminding us that politics can and should be a calling to serve. Reflecting on the personal and ideological tensions within Labour and its successes and failures in power, he describes how to meet the challenge of pursuing a radical agenda within a credible party of government. From the invasion of Iraq to the tragedy of Afghanistan, from the coalition negotiations of 2010 to the referendums on Scottish independence and Europe, Gordon Brown draws on his unique experiences to explain Britain's current fractured condition. By showing us what progressive politics has achieved in recent decades, he inspires us with a vision of what it might yet achieve. Riveting, expert and highly personal, this historic memoir is an invaluable insight into our times.
Download or read book May at 10 written by Anthony Seldon and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theresa May has presided over the most dramatic and historic peacetime premiership for a century. May at 10 tells the compelling inside story of the most turbulent period in modern British politics for 100 years. Written by one of Britain's leading political and social commentators, May at 10 describes how Theresa May arrived in 10 Downing Street in 2016 with the clearest, yet toughest, agenda of any Prime Minister since the Second World War: delivering Brexit. What follows defies belief or historical precedent. This story has never been told. Including a comprehensive series of interviews with May's closest aides and allies, and with unparalleled access to the advisers who shaped her premiership, Downing Street's official historian Anthony Seldon decodes the enigma of the Prime Minister's tenure. Drawing on all his authorial experience, he unpacks what is the most intriguing government and Prime Minister of the modern era.
Download or read book The Churchill Factor written by Boris Johnson and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Read how Britain's new Prime Minister was inspired by Winston Churchill** 'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference. On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, and written in conjunction with the Churchill Estate, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays - with characteristic wit and passion - a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breath-taking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the King to stay out of action on D-Day; he embraced large-scale strategic bombing, yet hated the destruction of war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. He was a celebrated journalist, a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was famous for his ability to combine wining and dining with many late nights of crucial wartime decision-making. His open-mindedness made him a pioneer in health care, education, and social welfare, though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect. Most of all, as Boris Johnson says, 'Churchill is the resounding human rebuttal to all who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces'. The Churchill Factor is a book to be enjoyed not only by anyone interested in history: it is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what makes a great leader.
Download or read book The Ex Men How Our Former Presidents Prime Ministers Are Still Changing the World written by Giles Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
