Right Turn: Eight Men Who Changed Their Minds

by Patrick Cormack (Editor), Reginald Prentice, Kingsley Amis

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104 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1978

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[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

In 1978, eight men who had been socialists and/or supporters of the Labour Party wrote essays explaining why they would be supporting Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives at the next election. The thrust of all of them is that the party had drifted away from the 'moderation' of the post war period and had become increasingly inspired by Marxism and beholden to trade unions, both trends representing a threat to Britain's parliamentary democracy. Four decades on, with Labour now run by Jeremy Corbyn, these essays feel alarmingly contemporary.