Failure in British Government by David Butler

Failure in British Government by David Butler

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Reviled by the public and disowned by politicians, the poll tax was the most celebrated political disaster in post-war Britain. This is the full story of the creation of a policy that toppled the century's longest-serving Prime Minister.

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Failure in British Government by David Butler

Reviled by the public and disowned by politicians, the poll tax was the most celebrated political disaster in post-war Britain. This book tells for the first time the full and gripping story of the policy that toppled the century's longest-serving Prime Minister and brought grandmothers on to the streets in protest, and looks at what the episode tells us about the nature of British government.
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ISBN 13 9780198278764
ISBN 10 0198278764
Title Failure in British Government
Author David Butler
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1994-11-01
Number of pages 352
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