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In 1977 Prime Minister James Callaghan and Liberal leader David Steel struck a constitutional deal, by which the Labour government could survive a vote of no confidence and get its business through Parliament, while the Liberals gained access to the anterooms of power. The Pact, a contemporaneous account of the hatching and workings of the 'Lib-Lab' deal of 1977-8, is an invaluable time-capsule of British politics but also a pointer to its future. Coalition government has oft been scorned in Britain, since - as Alistair Michie and Simon Hoggart note - the main parties regard their opponents chiefly as 'targets off which points may be scored'. But hung parliaments and inter-party deals, as revived in May of 2010, may be back to stay. This new edition of The Pact, in memory of its co-author Simon Hoggart (1946-2014), includes new prefaces by David Steel, Roy Hattersley, and the journalist Stephen Bush.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Pact
• Subtitle: The Inside Story of the Lib-Lab Government, 1977-1978
• Author: Alistair Michie, Simon Hoggart
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780571324989
• ISBN: 0571324983
• ID: 09233145
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 226 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 126 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. March 2015

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