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A comprehensively updated new edition of the essential guide
to the qualities and vulnerabilities of political leaders.
As the party that championed trade union rights, the
creation of the NHS and the establishment of a national minimum wage, Labour
has undoubtedly played a crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British
society. And yet the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Keir Hardie to
Sir Keir Starmer, via Clement Attlee, Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn - have
steered the party vessel with enormously varying degrees of success.
With the widening of the franchise, revolutionary changes to
social values and the growing ubiquity of the media, the requirements,
techniques and goals of the Labour leadership since the party's inception at
the turn of the twentieth century have been forced to evolve almost beyond
recognition - and not all its leaders have managed to keep up.
This comprehensive and enlightening book considers the
attributes and achievements of each leader in the context of their respective
time and diplomatic landscape, offering a compelling analytical framework by
which they may be judged, alongside detailed personal biographies from some of
the country's foremost political critics, and exclusive interviews with former
leaders themselves.
An indispensable contribution to the study of party
leadership, British Labour Leaders is essential to
understanding British political history and governance through the prism of
those who created it.
