Prime Minister Priti

And other things that never happened

Duncan Brack, Iain Dale

• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781785906916
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

"She woke with a start. Could it really have happened, or was it just a cruel dream? One way to find out. She reached for the remote control … 'You're watching GB News, the fair and balanced way to start your day, ' intoned the voice of Andrew Neil, overlaid on a remix of 'Land of Hope and Glory'.And then it hit her, as she took in the newsreader's first headline. 'The new Prime Minister, Priti Patel, is about to announce her first Cabinet appointments…' The new Prime Minister… So it was real."What does it take to change history? Clement Attlee dying on the battlefield, perhaps? John Lennon surviving that bullet, or Theresa May finally (finally!) passing her Brexit deal? Or maybe the pivotal recent years of UK history turned on one man's decision to have just one more drink…This is the world of political counterfactuals. Here, twenty-three fictional accounts, written by experts in their fields, tell the tales of what might have been – and what might still come to pass. Captivating and illuminating, these stories are guaranteed to make you smile – or gasp in horror…

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Authors
• 1: What if Randolph Churchill had not died in 1895?
• 2: What if Clement Attlee had died during the First World War?
• 3: What if General Maxwell had not executed the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising?
• 4: What if Franklin D. Roosevelt had died of polio in 1921?
• 5: What if Ireland had joined the Allies in the Second World War?
• 6: Goodbye, Mr Chips: what if the News Chronicle had not closed in 1960?
• 7: What if Scotland had voted ‘Yes’ to an assembly in 1979?
• 8: Imagine: what if John Lennon had not been killed in 1980?
• 9: What if Margaret Thatcher had won the 1990 Conservative leadership election?
• 10: What if Ross Perot had withdrawn from the 1992 US presidential election?
• 11: What if Tony Blair had implemented the Jenkins Report and introduced AV+?
• 12: What if Eric Joyce had pulled his punches in 2012?
• 13: What if Nick Clegg had resigned as Liberal Democrat leader in 2014?
• 14: What if John McDonnell had fought the Labour leadership election in 2015?
• 15: What if Britain had voted Remain in 2016?
• 16: What if Jeremy Corbyn had stood down in late 2017?
• 17: What if Theresa May had passed her Brexit deal at the third attempt? (1)
• 18: What if Theresa May had passed her Brexit deal at the third attempt? (2)
• 19: What if Boris Johnson had won the 2019 election with only a small majority?
• 20: What if the UK’s Covid response had been led by a woman?
• 21: What if Rebecca Long-Bailey had won the Labour leadership contest in April 2020?
• 22: What if President Trump had died of Covid-19?
• 23: What if Priti Patel became Prime Minister?
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