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Background resting on a hair's breadth … a guy dies instead of lives, an election is misplaced instead of received, one minister is appointed, one other brushed off, a coalition is joined, or no longer. input a global of political counterfactuals, twenty-two examinations of items that by no means occurred – yet may have. during this booklet a set of exceptional commentators, together with newshounds, teachers, former MPs and precise advisers, reflect on how issues may need became out otherwise all through a century of political historical past – from Lloyd George and Keynes drowning at sea in 1916 throughout to Boris Johnson turning into best Minister in 2016. Scholarly analyses of chances and causalities take their position beside fictional bills of exchange political histories – and all are absolute to entertain and make you think that.
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