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    Cover of Fall Out

    Fall Out

    Tim Shipman · 2017

    The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May's battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017. This is the unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May's battle for a Brexit deal - the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. Fall Out tells of how a leader famed for her caution battled her bitterly divided cabinet at home while facing duplicitous Brussels bureaucrats abroad. Of how she then took the biggest gamble of her career to strengthen her position - and promptly blew it. It is also a tale of treachery where - in the hour of her greatest weakness - one by one, May's colleagues began to plot against her. Inside this book you will find all the strategy, comedy, tragedy and farce of modern politics - where principle, passion and vaulting ambition collide in the corridors of power. It chronicles a civil war at the heart of the Conservative Party and a Labour Party back from the dead, led by Jeremy Corbyn, who defied the experts and the critics on his own side to mount an unlikely tilt at the top job.

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    1. montgomery_rNov 2024
      Some politics books I've read or re-read this year:

      Fall Out - Tim Shipman, on of his astonishingly detailed quartet on Britain's exit from the EU;

      Robert Blake's biography of Disraeli, magisterial yet readable;

      Boris Johnson's memoir Unleashed, great fun if you like his tone;

      Colonialism, a Moral Reckoning, Nigel Biggar, an antidote to the more ahistorical versions of the BLM narrative.

      The Notebook - A history of thinking on paper, Roland Allen - a joyful romp through the notebook's history;

      Elusive - How Peter Higgs solved the mystery of Mass, Frank Close - a nice account of the discovery of the Higgs Boson, with perhaps too much biography of Higgs, who after all as a lecturer at Edinburgh was not a thrill-seeker.

      Carlo Rovelli's White Holes, implausible but beautifully written.

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    2. arethuzaJan 2019
      I can strongly recommend Tim Shipman's "Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem" for an account of the post Brexit vote annus horribilis.

      The only thing to look forward to with Brexit is reading his account, some time next year, of the current antics.

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    3. arethuzaJul 2018
      Well, at least well have Tim Shipman to document whatever happens - his previous two books on the Brexit campaigns and May's troubled time as PM are outstanding:

      https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Out-War-Britains-Political/dp/0...

      https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fall-Out-Year-Political-Mayhem/dp/0...

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