ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE opposition here profiled, George Tierney, described the role as being “to oppose everything, and propose nothing — and to turn out the government”. In this survey, Nigel Fletcher, who co-founded the Centre for Opposition Studies, a think tank, gives us 42 sketches of the nearly-men (and two nearly-women) of British politics, from Charles James Fox to Jeremy Corbyn.
Each sketch is concise, pithy, enlightening, and witty. As you might expect,
