Across the floor : a life in dissenting politics / Peter Temple-Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Temple-Morris, Peter, Lord, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temple-Morris, Peter, Lord, 1938---Career in politics.

Temple-Morris, Peter, Lord, 1938-.

Conservative Party (Great Britain).

Labour Party (Great Britain).

Politicians--Great Britain--Anecdotes.

Politicians.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : I B Tauris, 2015.

Contents:

Part I The beginning

1 The Cambridge mafia 3

2 Into politics 21

Part 1 The party we joined 21

Part 2 The life we led 29

3 The Bar 39

Part II A political life

4 Mrs Thatcher 53

Part 1 Personal experiences 53

Part 2 The fall of the Iron Lady 60

5 Labour connections, South Wales and beyond 74

6 Party comparisons 86

Part III An international life

7 Revolution in Iran 105

Part 1 How are the mighty fallen 108

Part 2 Revolution is awful 111

8 Russia and the Soviet Union 127

Part 1 Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev 127

Part 2 The old and the new 135

9 Parliamentary diplomacy and the Foreign Office 142

Part IV Ireland

10 The peace process and the parliamentary role 161

11 Political difficulties 188

12 Tony Blair and the Belfast Agreement 204

Part V The anatomy of a defection

13 Events and disillusion 211

14 The best-laid plans 220

15 The withdrawal of the whip 237

16 Life as an Independent 245

17 1998 and the final push 251

Part VI Reflections

18 At the time, why did I defect? 267

19 Reflections, seventeen years later 270

20 Where am I now, where are we? 279.

ISBN:

1784534501

9781784534509

OCLC:

921939954