David Lipsey has moved in the corridors of power for over forty years. Political adviser in his twenties to a Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, then seventeen years a senior journalist including on The Times and The Economist and finally over a decade as a Labour peer, he has seen most of the angles, and gives a unique insight into political life. His autobiography details four decades of political change and what it has meant for the parties and the men and women at the heart of the legislative process. He brings a fresh perspective to those episodes of post-war British history in which he played a part, such as the 1976 77 IMF crisis, the end of the Callaghan government, and more recently the battles over paying for care of the elderly. This is a major political memoir.
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This book is a little gem...honest, wry, amusing and beautifully written --Austin Mitchell MP, The House Magazine
a great read...full of crisp, insightful comments on the policy issues of the last forty years --Lord Toby Harris
'David Lipsey has produced a stimulating memoir, balancing an honestly self-critical account of a varied life with serious reflections on what has gone wrong with politics, the state of social democracy, constitutional reform and the problems of long-term policymaking in Britain, with special reference to the issue of social care for the elderly with which he has been consistently engaged since his appointment to the House of Lords in 1999.' - Roger Liddle, Progress Online --http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2012/07/11/in-the-corridors-of-power/
a great read...full of crisp, insightful comments on the policy issues of the last forty years --Lord Toby Harris
'David Lipsey has produced a stimulating memoir, balancing an honestly self-critical account of a varied life with serious reflections on what has gone wrong with politics, the state of social democracy, constitutional reform and the problems of long-term policymaking in Britain, with special reference to the issue of social care for the elderly with which he has been consistently engaged since his appointment to the House of Lords in 1999.' - Roger Liddle, Progress Online --http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2012/07/11/in-the-corridors-of-power/
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David Lipsey was made a Life Peer in 1999.
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