Chief Whip: The Role, History and Black Arts of Parliamentary Whipping

A fascinating history of British Parliamentary discipline and the characters who have held the office of whip over the centuries. Also, the explosive inside story of Margaret Thatcher's downfall by the man who served as her chief whip in the year before her resignation. This book has some revelations which will cause the history of the period to be rewritten.Tim Renton was a Conservative MP from 1974 to 1997 and now sits in the House of Lords as Lord Renton of Mountharry.