In Office

How did Britain's Conservative Party, the most successful political machine in Western Europe and in power for nearly two decades, come to end its reign in electoral disaster? Were the splits in the party over Europe inevitable? Was the party unleadable, or did it lack leadership? Norman Lamont, Chancellor of the Exchequer for John Major, addresses these and other questions in a book that will be seen by historians as one of the definitive accounts of the Major years.