The Prime Ministers Who Never Were Author:Francis Beckett What if Neil Kinnock had won the 1992 General Election? What shape would a 1990's labour government have taken? Would it have brought us closer to Europe? How would it have handled the fallout of 'Black Wednesday'? In "The Prime Ministers Who Never Were", Francis Beckett presents eight intriguingly imagined counterfactuals, assessing how things ... more »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 exercises.« less