- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Free Press (1 Nov 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743263928
- ISBN-13: 978-0743263924
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 778,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Clare Short MP has been one of the government's most outspoken critics, despite having been a member of it for most of its two terms of office since 1997. Her resignation from the Cabinet over the war in Iraq in 2003 caused a furore -- not least because she had already threatened to go a few months earlier. Why did she delay? Why did she then decide to go? What is at the heart of her reservations about the New Labour style of government, and how does it affect the way we all live our lives? Writing 'more in sorrow than in anger', Clare Short now reveals her thinking about all aspects of the way Britain has been run since 1997. Drawing on her first-hand experience of events at the heart of power, she assesses the true effects of the centralisation of decision-making in Number 10 and shows us how New Labour has contrived to damage the goodwill afforded it by two successive three-figure majorities. Candid and forthright, lucid and thought-provoking, this is a major book about modern Britain.
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This book exhibits all of that straightforward, direct and forthright approach we have come to expect from Claire Short. Her ability to express complex political concepts in a clear, concise and very readable manner (the short sentences are noteworthy for a political memoir) is exhibited to great effect as she considers her career and specifically her time at the Department for International Development and her response to the decision to go to war in Iraq.
I suspect this is a book which will not be discussed in five years' time. Its value lies instead in its immediacy; what it has to say about Tony Blair and New Labour's style of government and the resultant effect on our standing and reputation in the world as a whole provides plenty of food for thought.
Could Claire Short be the one of the most honest of politicians?
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