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A King Among Ministers - Fifty Years in Parliament Recalled (Hardcover)
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A King Among Ministers - Fifty Years in Parliament Recalled (Hardcover)
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Tom King's personal memoirs range across a life of exceptional
activity and interest. Aged nineteen, he found himself commanding a
military company against Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya; at thirty he
became the youngest ever general manager in a major printing and
packaging group, in charge of a factory with a staff of 700 and
dealing with nine different trade unions. Elected as an MP in 1970,
nine years later he took through the legislation that transformed
London's vast derelict docklands into the thriving business
district of Canary Wharf. Subsequently his five Secretary of State
roles saw him carrying through the law that gave union members the
right to a secret ballot before a strike, then facing IRA terrorism
and Unionist opposition when he launched what became the start of
the peace process, then watching the fall of the Soviet Union and
the Iron Curtain and being responsible for the massive UK
deployment to help liberate Kuwait. Told with a sharp recollection
of his fifty years in Parliament, Tom King's memoirs cover a
particularly interesting period of history and his part in shaping
the events that led up to the world we live in now.
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