The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days write by Larry the Cat. This book was released on 2011-10-13. The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It was the brazen cheek of the huge rat running across the front of No 10 on a live TV news broadcast that galvanised the government into action. Meetings were held at the highest level and, barely a week later, on 15 February 2011, Larry the tabby cat arrived in Downing Street to make his mark as the new rodent bouncer in residence. A secret source quickly made contact and has been working closely with Larry ever since to get the full story - in diary form - of his first 100 days in the job. In a swift-moving narrative that pits Larry against the evil King Rat and his legion of cheese-eaters, our hero still finds time to spill the beans on what life with Sam and Dave is really like. With the economy in crisis and anarchy on the streets of London, Larry has to use all his smarts to outwit the enemy and earn his keep. Gaining privileged access to Sam Cam's iPad he uses Google Maps to surpass the rats' knowledge of the local area. With a Royal Wedding on the horizon and a revolving door of visiting dignitaries to contend with, Larry is able to take a wry look at the machinations of coalition power that lurk behind the big black door.
Downing Street Diary
Downing Street Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Downing Street Diary write by Bernard Donoughue. This book was released on 2008. Downing Street Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Continuing his account of his time as a senior policy advisor at No. 10, Donoughue deals with the Callaghan era. He covers the IMF loan, the 'Winter of Discontent' and Labour's subsequent election defeat, and recalls Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey, Michael Foot and other prominent figures.
Downing Street Diary
Downing Street Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Downing Street Diary write by Bernard Donoughue. This book was released on 2005. Downing Street Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Early in 1974, Bernard Donoughue was invited by Harold Wilson first to help fight the General Election and then to found and run the Policy Unit at Number Ten Downing Street, a body independent of the Civil Service machine working solely for the Prime Minister. He thus joined Wilson’s notorious "kitchen cabinet" with Joe Haines--Wilson’s combative press secretary--and Marcia Williams, Wilson’s personal and private secretary. Donoughue remained in Downing Street throughout Wilson’s final premiership, and his daily diary provides an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Harold Wilson struggling to hold the Labour Party together, drinking heavily, increasingly paranoid about "plots" and the press, and apparently in thrall to Marcia Williams. Williams had an extraordinary hold over the Prime Minister and violently resented "intrusion" from any other advisors, Donoughue included. Though the story of Wilson’s "kitchen cabinet" has been told before, there has never been an account as intimate and explosive as this extraordinary diary. One of the most extraordinary accounts of modern times, this is an intimate and often explosive look at life at the heart of Harold Wilson's government.
Downing Street Diary Volume Two
Downing Street Diary Volume Two - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Downing Street Diary Volume Two write by Bernard Donoughue. This book was released on 2009-01-19. Downing Street Diary Volume Two available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first volume of Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary was described by Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph as 'the best account of Harold Wlson's last days'; 'the sheer scale and detail are fascinating' wrote Peter Riddell in the Times Literary Supplement. This second volume covers the three years, 1976-79, when Donoughue was Senior Policy Advisor to James Callaghan. At first Callaghan quickly established dominance over his cabinet and restored calm after the plots and scandals of the later Wilson years. His incomes policy reduced inflation and, in the teeth of opposition from the left wing, he negotiated the notorious IMF loan at the expense of eliminating some of Labour's most cherished dreams. By 1978, Callaghan, a politician of great patriotism and decency, seemed to have succeeded in steering Britain into calmer waters. But then the storm broke. Trade union militants brushed aside their mediocre leaders and launched a ferocious attack on Callaghan's pay policy, driving up inflation and demonstrating the government's impotence. In the diaries we see the prime minister and the government paralysed as the 'Winter of Discontent' began to bite and politics took to the streets. As Labour drifted to inevitable defeat in the 1979 election we see Callaghan fighting honourably. From the smoke of battle there emerges a striking new leader: Margaret Thatcher. The diaries describe vividly both the decline and final collapse of 'old' Labour and how Mrs Thatcher took the opportunity to launch her crusade to dismantle trade union power and much of the British public sector. Besides James Callaghan the chief figures in this volume of Lord Donoughue's diaries are Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey, Tony Crosland, Michael Foot, Shirley Williams, David Owen and Tony Benn.
Downing Street Diary
Downing Street Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Downing Street Diary write by Bernard Donoughue. This book was released on 2005. Downing Street Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
