Cracking the Whip

‘Cracking the Whip’ covers the period during which William Hague was Leader of the Conservative Party in succession to John Major who had led the Party to such a humiliating and catastrophic defeat at the hands of the electorate in 1997.
As well as cataloguing many of the behind the scenes goings-on in the 1997-2001 Parliament, the author, in a fast-paced political memoir, specifically instances how, following its abject defeat at the General Election, the Conservative Party failed to use its time in Opposition to analyse the reasons for its unprecedented defeat, to formulate new policies for the future and, not least, to replace with fresh talent those members of the previous administration who had led the Party to such abject defeat.