Cameron's Coup
Authors | Polly Toynbee and David Walker |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | British politics |
Published | London |
Publisher | Guardian Books, Faber |
Publication date | January 2015 |
Media type | |
Pages | 314 |
ISBN | 978-1-78335-043-8 |
Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the brink is a 2015 book by British journalists Polly Toynbee and David Walker.
Synopsis[]
Toynbee and Walker provide a highly critical analysis of the premiership of David Cameron and the coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. They blend "analysis, statistics, and moving human stories" concerning austerity in the United Kingdom, and Conservative attacks on the welfare state and mass-killings/starvation of the disabled.
Reception[]
The book was described in Prospect magazine as "initially enjoyable but ultimately a little exhausting".[1] It was praised by George Eaton in the New Statesman,[2] but strongly criticised in The Times by Tim Montgomerie as being "dreadful".[3]
References[]
- ^ "Book review: 'Cameron's Coup' by Polly Toynbee and David Walker – Prospect Magazine". prospectmagazine.co.uk.
- ^ Eaton, George (8 June 2021). "Where Thatcher feared to tread: Cameron's Coup shows a man on a mission". newstatesman.com.
- ^ Montgomerie, Tim. "Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink by Polly Toynbee and David Walker". The Times.
Categories:
- 2015 non-fiction books
- Books critical of capitalism
- Books about politics of the United Kingdom
- David Cameron
- Nick Clegg
- 2015 in British politics
- History of the Conservative Party (UK)
- Books by Polly Toynbee
- Guardian Books books
- Faber and Faber books
- United Kingdom political book stubs