Serpents, Goats and Turkeys - David Laws

Thedefinitive, insider history of the often turbulent political relationshipbetween the Liberals and Labour. Naturalallies or fierce competitors? For the past century, Britain’s two majorcentre-left parties have co-existed in sometimes harmonious but more oftenfraught duopoly, from the 1903 agreement that a prominent Liberal complainedwas ‘nursing into life a serpent which would sting their party to death’ to the1976–77 pact that gave us the phrase ‘turkeys voting for Christmas’ and beyond,to... Zobrazit více