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Breaking the Code Gyles Brandreth

Breaking the Code By Gyles Brandreth

Breaking the Code by Gyles Brandreth


$34.99
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Summary

The paperback edition of Gyles Brandreth's revealing journal paints an extraordinary portrait of Whitehall and Westminster - warts and all.

Breaking the Code Summary

Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries 1992-2007 by Gyles Brandreth

A surprise win for the Conservatives as the voters decisively reject a Labour leader deemed 'not Prime Minister material'? A Tory Party ripped apart by European civil war? A country rebounding from one of the worst recessions in living memory?Check, check, check.One of the winners in an election victory nobody had predicted, back in 1992, Gyles Brandreth is no stranger to a poll-confounding, knife-edge Tory majority. Controversially, his gloriously indiscreet diaries revealed for the first time the secret world of the Government Whips' Office and its struggles to control a party riven by in-fighting over Europe.Now, as history looks set to repeat itself, comes the definitive edition of this widely acclaimed classic, featuring material originally excised for legal reasons, as well as additional diaries taking the story on another ten years.With candid descriptions of the key figures of the era, from the leading players to the ministers who fell from grace - and a bright young hopeful by the name of David Cameron - Breaking the Code paints an extraordinary portrait of Whitehall and Westminster in our time - warts and all.

About Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, former MP and government whip - and one of Britain's most sought-after award ceremony hosts and after-dinner speakers. Currently a reporter on The One Show on BBC One and a regular on Radio 4's Just a Minute, his acclaimed Victorian detective stories - The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries - are now published in twenty-one countries around the world.

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GOR007347679
9781849549158
184954915X
Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries 1992-2007 by Gyles Brandreth
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Biteback Publishing
20150817
560
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