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Theresa May: The Downing Street Revolution
Following an extremely turbulent time in British politics, Theresa May is poised to become the next Prime Minister of Great Britain, being sworn in on 13th August 2016.
Throughout her time in the Conservative Party, May has demonstrated her reliability and powerful influence, occupying a number of key positions, including Chairman of the Conservative Party and Home Secretary.
Theresa May - The Downing Street Revolution will relate May’s past political career and explore the strengths which she can bring as the new leader of the UK in a time of change and new beginnings.
Expertly researched and put together by experienced political journalist Virginia Blackburn, this book will provide a timely analysis of the current state of British politics. Blackburn is a prominent columnist for the Express, who has written for multiple other media outlets and gained a loyal following.
The news of Theresa May’s appointment has made national, if not international headlines. This subject cannot fail to be of interest to those not only with a keen interest in politics, but the general public who have been swept up in the recent whirlwind of events which have captivated the nation.
Throughout her time in the Conservative Party, May has demonstrated her reliability and powerful influence, occupying a number of key positions, including Chairman of the Conservative Party and Home Secretary.
Theresa May - The Downing Street Revolution will relate May’s past political career and explore the strengths which she can bring as the new leader of the UK in a time of change and new beginnings.
Expertly researched and put together by experienced political journalist Virginia Blackburn, this book will provide a timely analysis of the current state of British politics. Blackburn is a prominent columnist for the Express, who has written for multiple other media outlets and gained a loyal following.
The news of Theresa May’s appointment has made national, if not international headlines. This subject cannot fail to be of interest to those not only with a keen interest in politics, but the general public who have been swept up in the recent whirlwind of events which have captivated the nation.
256 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2016
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August 5, 2024
There's no one in the world that Virginia Blackburn loves more than Theresa May, and there's nothing in the world she hates more than the Labour party. Needless to say i was thouroughly entertained. (And partly convinced.)
July 23, 2017
Nice and concise. The book is informative and filled my lack of knowledge regarding May's personal history and upbringing. Written from a pro-May (and conservative feminist) perspective.
June 19, 2023
A cool-headed pragmatist with penchant for striking dresses and shoes, Theresa May stood in history as Britain’s second female Prime Minister. Standing as non-controversial, unity candidate, May won the premiership after a particularly dramatic preliminary rounds. After the unexpected result of UK’s EU membership referendum, majority of British citizens wanted UK out of EU, hence Brexit was born. The previous Prime Minister, David Cameron, himself leaned towards remain camp, felt unable to keep on going with the results for leave, thus triggering change of leadership in Conservative Party. In classic, house-of-cards move in which Boris Johnson, the face of Leave group was backstabbed by his traitorous friend, Michael Gove, whom, in turn, unable to muster enough support for him, thus enabling Theresa May to emerge as the eventual Prime Minister.
In this concise biography, Theresa May was depicted as thoroughly middle class, a grammar school girl who made her way through Oxford University and met her sweetheart, Philip May. After graduating and joining Conservative Party, Theresa rose steadily within the party, without any controversy whatsoever, and entered the Parliament in 1997, an unfortunate time for the Tories as they, still reeling from recent matricide which toppled the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, were wiped by the Labour under Tony Blair. As Conservatives struggled on with leaders who struggled to fill Thatcher shoes, Theresa captured the Chairmanship of the Party. The chairman (title she prefer to be called as), was fearless, as she chastised the Tory Party leadership for being the “Nasty Party”. Fortunately, the tide turned for the Tories, as Labour itself became embroiled in an infighting of their own, while Conservative Party succeeded in shedding the Iron Lady killer and freshening its face under the new leadership of David Cameron.
Theresa May quietly built her political gravita, first as successions of several shadow secretary positions when tories were in opposition, then most importantly as Home Secretary during David Cameron’s premiership, showing unexpected toughness such as when deporting Abu Qatada. Since this book was written in the earliest premiership of Theresa, the book ended with high expectation. However, as history proven. Theresa premiership was somewhat lacklustre. Her quip, “Brexit means Brexit”, uttered earlier, came back to haunt her, as everyone became confused of what it truly meant for britain. In the end, she was toppled by rebel tories bent on accelerating UK’s exit from EU led by none other than his greatest rival, Boris Johnson. A tragic story to behold.
In this concise biography, Theresa May was depicted as thoroughly middle class, a grammar school girl who made her way through Oxford University and met her sweetheart, Philip May. After graduating and joining Conservative Party, Theresa rose steadily within the party, without any controversy whatsoever, and entered the Parliament in 1997, an unfortunate time for the Tories as they, still reeling from recent matricide which toppled the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, were wiped by the Labour under Tony Blair. As Conservatives struggled on with leaders who struggled to fill Thatcher shoes, Theresa captured the Chairmanship of the Party. The chairman (title she prefer to be called as), was fearless, as she chastised the Tory Party leadership for being the “Nasty Party”. Fortunately, the tide turned for the Tories, as Labour itself became embroiled in an infighting of their own, while Conservative Party succeeded in shedding the Iron Lady killer and freshening its face under the new leadership of David Cameron.
Theresa May quietly built her political gravita, first as successions of several shadow secretary positions when tories were in opposition, then most importantly as Home Secretary during David Cameron’s premiership, showing unexpected toughness such as when deporting Abu Qatada. Since this book was written in the earliest premiership of Theresa, the book ended with high expectation. However, as history proven. Theresa premiership was somewhat lacklustre. Her quip, “Brexit means Brexit”, uttered earlier, came back to haunt her, as everyone became confused of what it truly meant for britain. In the end, she was toppled by rebel tories bent on accelerating UK’s exit from EU led by none other than his greatest rival, Boris Johnson. A tragic story to behold.
November 6, 2022
I went into this book wanting to learn about May, and while I feel I did (to the extent which I read of the book - about 140ish pages) I do not feel satisfied with the blatant bias viewpoint from which it was written, nor with having been subjected to what I can only describe as irrelevant information and comments by the author through out - yes I understand that she would have survived at University via cooking her own meals you have indeed already mentioned her 100 plus collection of cook books 🙃 I can put two and two together to grasp this (not that it’s particularly relevant).
Overall due to how the book was written I could not bring myself to finish reading it, though the knowledge I gained was in some sense informative and insightful where it was not random, irrelevant facts.
2/5
Overall due to how the book was written I could not bring myself to finish reading it, though the knowledge I gained was in some sense informative and insightful where it was not random, irrelevant facts.
2/5
October 28, 2020
A somewhat informative book if you ignore the blatant biased view of May from the author, who seems to hate all things Labour and anything anti-conservative and feminist.
Not a book to read if you want a balanced view of the second female Prime Minister of the UK.
Not a book to read if you want a balanced view of the second female Prime Minister of the UK.
June 16, 2019
Excellent
Well written book about Theresa May. Highly recommend if you wish to know more about her rise to power starting at feeble beginnings
Well written book about Theresa May. Highly recommend if you wish to know more about her rise to power starting at feeble beginnings
July 29, 2023
It was an interesting account of her life and career but the author’s prejudices kept creeping in. We didn’t need to hear her own views on everything
September 24, 2024
Not a genre I would normally read. This was very easy reading. I knew little of Theresa May and this was very comprehensive.
September 17, 2016
Easy to read and informative. Like her even more!
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