Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem

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The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa Mays battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War.

By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017.
This is the unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa Mays battle for a Brexit deal the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War.

Fall Out tells of how a leader famed for her caution battled her bitterly divided cabinet at home while facing duplicitous Brussels bureaucrats abroad. Of how she then took the biggest gamble of her career to strengthen her position and promptly blew it. It is also a tale of treachery where in the hour of her greatest weakness one by one, Mays colleagues began to plot against her.

Inside this book you will find all the strategy, comedy, tragedy and farce of modern politics where principle, passion and vaulting ambition collide in the corridors of power. It chronicles a civil war at the heart of the Conservative Party and a Labour Party back from the dead, led by Jeremy Corbyn, who defied the experts and the critics on his own side to mount an unlikely tilt at the top job.

With access to all the key players, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how and why the EU referendum result pitched Britain into a year of political mayhem.

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'The doyen of high-class gossip is Shipman, whose All Out War was last years bestselling guide to the referendum campaign. Its sequel takes up where that left off Shipmans books are fast becoming classics Its testament to the rigour of [his] research that the book doesnt feel dated despite the speed at which events at Westminster have moved since it went to press' Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian

This extraordinary book reads like a roaring farce jam-packed with fresh, illuminating details Shipmans writing has admirable clarity and drive For anyone who wants to relive the past year this book is a must Craig Brown, Mail On Sunday

All Out War was the best political book published last year its triumphant sequel is even better Alex Massie, Spectator

Gripping If journalism is the "first rough draft" of history, then Shipman is the master of the second, tidied up, version of events A mixture of political thriller, psychological analysis and campaign diary, this is a page-turner for anyone interested in politics Rachel Sylvester, The Times

Readers who enjoyed the lucid prose and unrivalled access that made the first book such a treat will love its sequel New Statesman

Shipman a major-domo with a notebook in his waistcoat pocket bends over backwards to be fair It is crammed with detailed description and the transcribed thoughts of those who were there when the key decisions were taken Andrew Marr, Sunday Times

Excellent engrossing a witty phrase-maker Shipman does a fine job of making sense of the period since the Brexit referendum illuminating Andrew Rawnsley, Observer

Of books explaining this peculiar time, the most keenly awaited comes from Tim Shipman he returns to his role as the chief biographer of Brexit with a worthy sequel Sebastian Payne, Financial Times

It carries on from his first book, All Out War and is just as good I cant give his books any higher praise than that Iain Dale, LBC

Author Bio

Tim Shipman is the political editor of the Sunday Times. He has been a national newspaper journalist since 1997 and in sixteen years writing about politics he has also reported from Westminster for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Express. Tim was Washington correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph during Barack Obamas historic first election campaign. He has covered four general elections, three presidential elections, two wars and more leadership contests than he can count. He popularized the word omnishambles in Westminster long before George Osborne based a budget on the idea. Tim was chairman of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in 2012. He was shortlisted for the Political Journalist of the Year award at the British Press Awards in 2015, 2016, and 2017. He lives in south-east London with his wife and more than two thousand books.