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In The Prime Ministers Who Never Were Francis Beckett presents intriguingly imagined counterfactuals, assessing how things might have turned out under different circumstances.

How, for example, would Britain have fared in the Second World War under the stewardship of Lord Halifax and not Winston Churchill? What if Aneurin Bevan had beaten Hugh Gaitskell to the Labour Party leadership in 1955, or where would New Labour have been if John Smith had lived to claim election victory in 1997?

Entertaining and thought-provoking, The Prime Ministers Who Never Were is a collection of fascinating historical flights of fancy.

Contributors include: Hugh Purcell, Robert Taylor, Francis Beckett, Peter Beckett, Greg Rosen, Anne Perkins, Dianne Hayter, Chris Proctor, Nigel Jones, Peter Cuthbertson, Phil Woolas, Eric Midwinter, Stephen Bates, Paul Routledge.