Crossing the Floor
Subtitle: Reg Prentice and the Crisis of British Social Democracy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780719088698
Subjects: Labour party (great britain); Politicians, great britain; Cabinet officers, great britain; Great britain, politics and government, 1945-; Great britain, biography
Description: This new biography provides an account of the career of Reg Prentice, one of the most controversial figures in modern British political history. He remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period, and his defection was reflective of an important 'sea change' in British politics.