The prime ministers who never were
Subtitle: a collection of counterfactuals
By: Francis Becket
Publisher: Biteback
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781849543217
Subjects: Politicians; History; Imaginary histories; Politics and government
Notes: Originally published: 2011.
Table of contents: title: Prime Minister Austen Chamberlain splits the Tories; title: Prime Minister Clynes stifles the Nazi menace; title: Prime Minister Halifax attempts peace with Hitler; title: Prime Minister Mosley and the United States of Europe; title: Prime Minister Morrison and municipal socialism; title: Prime Minister Gaitskell sends troops to Vietnam; title: Prime Minister Butler and the Democratic Centralist Party; title: Prime Minister George Brown and Charles de Gaulle; title: Prime Minister Tebbit walks away from Maastricht; title: Prime Minister Foot saves the economy and the Labour government; title: Prime Minister Healey cuts Thatcherism short; title: Prime Minister Kinnock links with the Liberals and abolishes the Lords; title: Prime Minister Smith looks to Brussels, not Washington; title: Prime Minister David Miliband creates a Lab-Lib coalition.