Cambridge Literary Festival: Tim Shipman - A Year of Political Mayhem

Cambridge Literary Festival: Tim Shipman - A Year of Political Mayhem

Sunday 15 April 2018
Palmerston Room - St John's College
Join Tim Shipman to hear his unmissable story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history.

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He tells how Theresa May, a leader famed for her caution, battled her bitterly divided cabinet at home while facing Brussels bureaucrats abroad, and of how she then took the biggest gamble of her career to strengthen her position – and promptly blew it. In Fall Out, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller. Join him in conversation with Professor of Politics and festival patron David Runciman to relive a year of political mayhem. 

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60 minutes