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BBC News: "Mr Scott was the prime minister's economics adviser until last December and is well-placed to give an insider's account of the links between the Treasury and Downing Street." The Guardian: "...the first time that a member of the prime minister's circle has publicly spelt out the tension between the two architects of New Labour." The Prime Minister (06/07/04 - speaking on BBC Radio 2) "If you want to sell the book, you have to have something that is inflammatory in it." The Chancellor: (13/07/04 - speaking on BBC Radio 4) "He's got a responsibility to make his book accurate or I've got a responsibility to tell the truth about what actually happened." The Chancellor's Spokesman (28/06/04) "This deliberate peddling of lies and distortions ... is deliberately designed and orchestrated to put the Treasury in a bad light and will not be tolerated." "Lucid, penetrating and fair minded... No one has had a better vantage point to assess the practical issues surrounding the UK replacing the pound with the euro and the assessment of the political and economic implications of the EU Constitution could not be more timely." -Lord Owen, Foreign Secretary 1977-1979 "From his unique vantage point in the heart of Downing Street, Derek Scott has produced a penetrating analysis of the politics and economics of the euro. This is a very important book." -David Smith, Economics Editor Sunday Times "A tour de force, of obvious appeal to euro sceptics but also calculated to make pro-Europeans think hard about the economics of the single currency." -William Keegan, The Observer "Derek Scott's book is a brilliant insight into the government's secret internal debate on the single currency and the European Constitution and, more important, the struggle between the two most powerful politicians in the land, over what Tony Blair describes as "the biggest issue facing Britain this century." Essential reading." -Trevor Kavanagh, Political Editor, The Sun
28/06/04 BBC News: No 10 turns on ex-Blair adviser
Mr Scott... is well-placed to give an insider's account of the links between the Treasury and Downing Street.
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Notwithstanding the attempts to censor this book and the charges levelled at me just before its publication about my motives for writing it, this is a work about the economics and politics of Europe, or rather 'Europe': the institutional framework now known as the European Union (EU) and previously as the European Community (EC), and before that as the European Economic Community (EEC). Read the first page
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Notwithstanding the attempts to censor this book and the charges levelled at me just before its publication about my motives for writing it, this is a work about the economics and politics of Europe, or rather 'Europe': the institutional framework now known as the European Union (EU) and previously as the European Community (EC), and before that as the European Economic Community (EEC). Read the first page
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Format:Hardcover
This is a highly technical work, in fact rather too much so for me as I have no qualifications in economics. No one could doubt the depth of the author's inside knowledge, but it is also very narrow. This is not a book I would recommend to the general reader, but if you are interested in the political dimension of economics it probably would interest you.
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This book focuses on the economic arguments about the Euro and outlines a powerful case for the UK remaining outside of the Euro. The author states his belief that the public in the UK has been misled by politicians over the years about where the EU is heading. Anyone who wants the UK to adopt the Euro should read this and answer the questions being asked, without trying to stereotype people views as either being for or against membership of the EU. As this books shows, there are shades of grey in this argument. This book encourages people to take a balanced approach to the arguments for and against EMU.
However, don't fall into the trap thinking that this book is an expose about the relationship between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, it is not.
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