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Politics, Poverty and Belief - A Political Memoir (Hardcover)
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Politics, Poverty and Belief - A Political Memoir (Hardcover)
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In this touching but also profound memoir, Field explains two key
factors in his upbringing - the poverty of his own childhood and
the deep and lasting effect of his Christian socialism, as
exemplified in the writings of F. D. Maurice and William Temple.
Field has spent his adult life fighting against poverty in Britain,
through parliament and through his strong personal influence.
Poverty for him has injustice at its root and as he explains in
this book, he has found allies on all sides of the political
spectrum. He was appointed by Tony Blair to be the Secretary of
State for Pensions, but the reforms he advocated were so radical
and essentially just, that Tony Blair could not contemplate them
and Field stood down. Previously he had been Chairman of the Work
and Pensions Select Committee under John Major. As we read in this
profound book, he has been involved in the Child Poverty Action
Group (CPAG) and worked with George Osborne to pass the legislation
for the Minimum Living Wage. The range of his campaigns is
astonishing. With the Rowntree Trust, he set up the Low Pay Unit
(LPU), he battled with Chiswick Council to combat the corruption
and injustice behind local housing lists. In politics, he spoke out
in the House against the corruption of greed and power and for this
he became greatly admired by Margaret Thatcher. In the end, Field's
zeal for reform was too much for too many people. In 2015, Momentum
(Trotskyite socialist political movement within the Labour Party)
moved into his own local Labour party and managed to get him
deselected. This is a political and personal memoir of quite
exceptional importance and will be widely read, not least because
it is an implicit indictment of modern British politics - the world
of cash for questions, Partygate and all the rest - in which the
poor get poorer and the rich get richer.
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