Redheads in Normandy
R.W. Johnson: The 1997 election, 22 January 1998
The British General Election of 1997
by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh.
Macmillan, 343 pp., £17.50, November 1997,0 333 64776 9 Show More
by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh.
Macmillan, 343 pp., £17.50, November 1997,
Labour's Landslide
by Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge.
Manchester, 211 pp., £40, December 1997,0 7190 5159 2 Show More
by Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge.
Manchester, 211 pp., £40, December 1997,
Britain Votes 1997
edited by Pippa Norris and Neil Gavin.
Oxford, 253 pp., £12.99, January 1998,9780199223220 Show More
edited by Pippa Norris and Neil Gavin.
Oxford, 253 pp., £12.99, January 1998,
Collapse of Stout Party: The Decline and Fall of the Tories
by Julian Crtitchley and Morrison Halcrow.
Gollancz, 288 pp., £20, November 1997,0 575 06277 0 Show More
by Julian Crtitchley and Morrison Halcrow.
Gollancz, 288 pp., £20, November 1997,
Les Election Legislatives, 25 Mai-1er Juin 1997: Le president desavoue
Le Monde, 146 pp., frs 45, June 1998Show More
Le Monde, 146 pp., frs 45, June 1998Show More
“... No one this time last year would have predicted a victory for the Left in France, yet it is in a sense far easier to explain Jospin’s triumph than Blair’s. President Chirac, elected in 1995 on a promise that he would reduce unemployment, had actually done the opposite; and, faced with the need of his deeply unpopular prime minister, Alain Juppé, to squeeze the economy yet further to meet the Maastricht criteria, called a snap election simply because he feared things would get tougher by the time Parliament’s mandate ran out in 1998 ... ”
