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Taking it on the Chin
Memoirs of a Parlimentary Bruiser
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2016
Biteback Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78590-027-3 (ISBN)
Biteback Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78590-027-3 (ISBN)
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The memoirs of one of the House of Lords' most colourful characters, Tom Pendry - former Labour MP for Stalybridge and a lifelong servant of both politics and sport.
Surely one of the most colourful characters ever to have graced the Palace of Westminster, Tom Pendry has been a boxer, a bruiser and a scholar, whose political career as an agent, candidate, Labour MP and peer has spanned over sixty years.As well as introducing key legislation, his time in Parliament saw him famously kick-start Tony Blair's political career, lead the first anti-apartheid demonstration at a cricket match of an all-white South African side, and head up the successful fight to keep sport on Radio 5. During this time, he also took up the constituency case of a local GP complaining of cuts in drugs funding - Harold Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial killer.Well-known within the Labour Party as 'the best Sports Minister we never had', Pendry once dislocated his own shoulder showing Muhammad Ali how to punch, almost knocking out the world heavyweight champion's wife in the process.Full of revealing anecdotes and candid descriptions of colleagues, his memoirs throw new light on successive governments and great, epoch-making events, and are a mixture of light and shade, irreverent wit and deeply serious intent.
Surely one of the most colourful characters ever to have graced the Palace of Westminster, Tom Pendry has been a boxer, a bruiser and a scholar, whose political career as an agent, candidate, Labour MP and peer has spanned over sixty years.As well as introducing key legislation, his time in Parliament saw him famously kick-start Tony Blair's political career, lead the first anti-apartheid demonstration at a cricket match of an all-white South African side, and head up the successful fight to keep sport on Radio 5. During this time, he also took up the constituency case of a local GP complaining of cuts in drugs funding - Harold Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial killer.Well-known within the Labour Party as 'the best Sports Minister we never had', Pendry once dislocated his own shoulder showing Muhammad Ali how to punch, almost knocking out the world heavyweight champion's wife in the process.Full of revealing anecdotes and candid descriptions of colleagues, his memoirs throw new light on successive governments and great, epoch-making events, and are a mixture of light and shade, irreverent wit and deeply serious intent.
Tom Pendry, Baron Pendry, of Stalybridge, is a Labour peer in the House of Lords. He was the Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1970 to 2001. He was Shadow Minister for Sport and Tourism until 1997 and was appointed the President of the Football Foundation in February 2003.
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.03.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 16pp colour plates |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78590-027-7 / 1785900277 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78590-027-3 / 9781785900273 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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