A House Divided: The Lib-Lab Pact and the Future of British Politics

by David Steel

Hardcover in very good condition. Unclipped jacket with minor shelfwear. Hardcover spine foot bumped. Traces of foxing on the page block. The binding is sound, all text is clear. CM

200 pages, Hardcover

First published June 26, 1980

About the author

David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC is a Scottish politician. He began his career in the Liberal Party, serving as the party's final leader from 1976 to 1988. His tenure spanned the duration of the alliance with the Social Democratic Party, which began in 1981 and concluded with the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988. Steel served as a Member of the UK Parliament for 32 years from 1965 to 1997 and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2003, during which time he was the parliament's Presiding Officer. He was a member of the House of Lords as a life peer from 1997 to 2020, when he resigned due to a child abuse report.