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mickymac's review
4.0
with exceptional access, Seldon chronicles the key moments of the Coalition government. His obvious respect and confidence in Cameron shines through along with his disdain for the naivety and political ineptitude of Clegg and Miliband.
Unfortunately it reads like a textbook with little insight except at the end of this hefty volume: well-written but somewhat dull this pulls together the disparate threads of five key years in British politics and the evidence to support Seldon's contention that Cameron's record is better than the Eurosceptic press is piled up. However apart from the simple fact that the Tories got more votes in 2015, there is little assessment of his impact on the country leaving this feeling like a record of a private club rather than a Government. Maybe that is the implicit message that Parliament has got so divorced from most people's lives that a Prime Minister is best judged by his impact on political obsessives rather than their ability to change people's lives.
Unfortunately it reads like a textbook with little insight except at the end of this hefty volume: well-written but somewhat dull this pulls together the disparate threads of five key years in British politics and the evidence to support Seldon's contention that Cameron's record is better than the Eurosceptic press is piled up. However apart from the simple fact that the Tories got more votes in 2015, there is little assessment of his impact on the country leaving this feeling like a record of a private club rather than a Government. Maybe that is the implicit message that Parliament has got so divorced from most people's lives that a Prime Minister is best judged by his impact on political obsessives rather than their ability to change people's lives.