Alex Salmond: My Part in His Downfall
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Alex Salmond: My Part in His Downfall by Alan Cochrane
Alan Cochrane - or 'that ghastly man from the Telegraph', as Alex Salmond's wife calls him - emerged as a Unionist hero in Scotland's recent independence battle.Using his daily newspaper column and his enviable list of Westminster and Scottish contacts, the veteran journalist mounted a personal mission to ensure the survival of the United Kingdom and the downfall of Alex Salmond's Scottish nationalist cause. At the same time, Cochrane was secretly keeping a diary charting every twist and turn in the campaign, from Westminster's decision on whether to allow the ballot to go ahead to Gordon Brown's late entry onto the scene as tensions mounted in the No camp. Through the pages of this illuminating journal, Cochrane reveals the truth about how the UK was won, offering biting analysis, telling detail and often trenchant wit. As the polls narrowed in the run-up to 18 September, the historic fight for Britain brought out the best and the worst in the characters involved. With his behind-the-scenes access to David Cameron, Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown and everyone in between, Alan Cochrane raises the curtain on the panicked, incompetent and cynical world of modern politics, sparing no one from his acerbic tongue.
'A delightful, funny and insightful diary of the two-year Scottish referendum' Standpoint 'Cochrane relives the Independence campaign in glorious technicolour. Required reading.' Scottish Field
Alan Cochrane is Scottish editor and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He was born in Dundee and began work as a journalist with the DC Thomson newspaper group. In London he covered politics for, variously, the Daily Express, the Sunday Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday - where he was political editor and assistant editor under Stewart Steven - and the Sunday Express. He returned to Scotland in 1994 as editor of the Scottish Daily Express and was subsequently deputy editor of Scotland on Sunday. He covered the years leading up to the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament for The Scotsman and, latterly, the Daily Telegraph, for which he ran the coverage of the independence referendum. He has four children and lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two youngest daughters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781849548267 |
| ISBN 10 | 1849548269 |
| Title | Alex Salmond: My Part in His Downfall |
| Author | Alan Cochrane |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Biteback Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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