{"product_id":"bloody-panico-geoffrey-wheatcroft-9781804295755","title":"Bloody Panico!","description":"The most successful political party in history?\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;The Tory Party has been in power for eighty-five of the past 135 years. In 2019 they won their largest parliamentary majority in more than three decades. They have had a long way to fall since, and they’ve done it at incredible speed.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;As Geoffrey Wheatcroft shows, we have witnessed not simply the collapse of the party but the shattering of its very foundations. \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Bloody \u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Panico!\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; opens the sorry tale with the Tories’ return to power in 2010, with ‘Call Me Dave’\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Cameron at the helm. The turmoil of the referendum followed, as Boris championed a Leave campaign he didn’t believe in for supporters with no clear idea what they were demanding.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Beyond the pantomime of Boris, Truss’s kamikazee premiership, and the squirming managerial tedium of Sunak, the party is riven by resentment and confusion. It is a maelstrom of petty and shameless in-fighting. The Tories’ ancient instinct for survival has deserted them, along with any shred of concern for public well-being.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;The next general election could see them cast into the wilderness for decades.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Leading political commentator Geoffrey Wheatcroft argues that this is an existential crisis for the party, a tipping point in British political history.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49880104141088,"sku":"9781804295755","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781804295755.jpg?v=1769430663","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/bloody-panico-geoffrey-wheatcroft-9781804295755","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}