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Winning Here: My Campaigning Life: Memoirs Volume 1

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By (author): Chris Rennard

Chris Rennard's long relationship with the Liberals, and later the Liberal Democrats, began when a compassionate Liberal candidate helped his disabled mother receive her widowed mother allowance. By his 20s Rennard was the most successful election campaigner his party has ever known. He helped the Liberal Party win power in Liverpool in the 1970s and campaigned for Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins in famous by-elections which helped the Liberal SDP Alliance to compete for power before its acrimonious collapse in the late 80's. He was then responsible for a series of spectacular by-election victories that rescued his party's fortunes and he oversaw a huge increase in the party's number of MPs and elected representatives. Liberal leaders Paddy Ashdown, Charles Kennedy, Menzies Campbell and Nick Clegg would all rely on him as the party grew to the peak of its success. This volume of memoirs spans his first 30 years in politics (to 2006) and includes the highs and lows of his party during the leaderships of Paddy Ashdown (including his hopes for coalition with Tony Blair) and Charles Kennedy, (including the latter's enforced resignation after revealing publicly his problem with alcohol). There will never be a better inside account of a political party, or contemporary history of the Liberal Democrats. Winning Here is a record that shows how election campaigns are really fought and won and how party leaders change and parties develop. Similarly, there will never be a commentator better placed to tell this story. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 609g
  • Dimensions: 164 x 241mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Jan 2018
  • Publisher: Biteback Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781785903373

About Chris Rennard

Chris Rennard was made a life peer on the recommendation of Paddy Ashdown in 1999. He was Director of Campaigns & Elections for the Liberal Democrats from 1989 to 2003 and Chief Executive of the party from 2003 to 2009.

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