Including ten extended interviews with key political players such as Charles Kennedy, Norman Lamont and Tony Wright, the book combines the theoretical discussion with select case studies producing a series of narrow pieces of contemporary history. The book is a study of contemporary British politics, producing a strategic history of the period. This ranges from the ascension of Thatcherism, to the rise of New Labour, the leadership decline of Foot to the deterioration of Duncan Smith, The disorder endured by Major to the struggles of Kinnock, the battle lines between Blair and Howard, the creation of the SDP, the spawning of the Liberal Democrats and its future under Kennedy.