"The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'."

Source : Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

Andrew Marr

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