Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1997-2007

Lifting the lid on the power battles at the heart of the Labour Party that sowed the seeds of today's turmoil, 'Outside, Inside' is a vivid and compelling insight into modern political history, and a candid reflection on the personal impact of life in the corridors of power.

This is a total re-evaluation of New Labour and Blair's years in power, with a focus on five areas: health, education, immigration, energy, and war. And then there's the more personal angles too - Blair's battle with Gordon Brown, his relations with the Palace, his private life and his controvers...

This title presents a journey through the political career of Norman Baker, the independent-minded, and colourful, former Liberal Democrat MP, and a minister for state at the Home Office.

George Osborne is the most controversial Chancellor of the Exchequer since the Second World War. This is the story of Osborne's ascent to power: a journey driven by luck, guile, resilience, daring and ferocious ambition.

One July afternoon in 2003, in a quiet part of Oxfordshire, a scientist went out for a walk and never came back. Dr David Kelly had been all over the news in the preceding days; as an investigator on the team which went into Iraq to check whether they had weapons of mass destruction, he had been ...

A sharp and engaging political analysis of how democracy in Britain is being replaced by oligarchy.

This third and final volume of Chris Mullin's acclaimed diaries begins on the night John Smith died in May 1994, and continues until the moment of Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999.

This is the final volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which wrote itself immediately into the history books, and it ends on the day Campbell leaves Downing Street.

The third volume of diaries, covering 1999 to 2001. Life continues apace for Campbell and the New Labour government. Alongside the day-to-day running of the country, they deal with the fallout from the military action in Kosovo, continuing negotiations over Northern Ireland, and the pressures whi...

The first published memoirs by one of New Labour's three founding members. Frank, honest and revealing, it presents a dramatic first-hand narrative of a historic period of change in British politics and lays bare Peter Mandelson's intimate, complex relationship with Britain's two New Labour Prime...