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Momentum: The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People by Mo Mowlam
The work of another pioneering female politician who managed to be both popular and effective...
In this text, Mo Mowlam tells the story of her time in government in her own words. She writes about the months leading up to the 1997 General Election, Labour's landslide victory and what had gone on as she underwent treatment for a brain tumour while working towards that victory. She also tells the inside story of her time as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The characters and chemistry of this time are analyzed with the candour, warmth and humour that are Mo Mowlam's trademarks. After the Good Friday Agreement, Mo Mowlam was, somewhat controversially, moved to the Cabinet Office. Before the second landslide victory of 2001, she decided to leave Westminister politics - this text reveals why, and also tells of her hopes and plans for the future...

Diaries by Alan Clark
Regarded as the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written, the diaries of the irrepressible Alan Clark provide a unique insight into the world of Westminster.
Alan Clark, historian and politician, has been a long-time diarist, recording his life socially and politically over many years. This volume covers the period from the death of his father, Lord (Kenneth) Clark, to the moment when he became subject to the Privy Council oath in February of 1991. Thus the diaries cover two full Parliaments serving under Margaret Thatcher until her ousting in a coup (which Clark observed closely from the inside) and then under John Major. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries all have their conceits illuminated. And a succession of pretty girls cross the stage, and the delights and pain which they cause the author are recorded. Clark notes what he observes, what he hears, what he believes and he admits his own ambitions and foibles.