In 1981, Cecil King wrote to the cabinet secretary, accusing Harold Wilson of feeding the coup allegation to the press. Such is the conviction with which they state their achievements – the halving of the deficit, a record number in employment, the highest-ever level of GDP – that even non-Tories are prone to ask whether the government’s opponents have exaggerated its defects. Nothing materialised of the plot and King, the chairman of International Publishing Corporation (IPC), which counted the Daily Mirror among its titles, described the story as “nonsense”. Polly Toynbee, the Guardian’s social-democratic doyenne, and her husband and fellow journalist, David Walker, cast the same forensic eye over the coalition as they did over New Labour (in 2010’s The Verdict) and find it wanting in almost every respect.

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Once his party were unionists, now Wales never escapes prime ministerial mention without a sneer; under him Scotland came close to dissolving the United Kingdom.In his memo, contained within the latest tranche of declassified cabinet files released by the National Archives in Kew, Omand wrote: “The intake of asylum seekers is now running at double the rate when we published our plans and targets in 1998.

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On almost every page the attacks on the coalition’s record are both relentless and exceptionally boring. Despite failing to win the election, the Tories proceeded to savage welfare, destabilise the NHS, decouple schools from collective control and replace public service provision with markets and contracts. Conservative governments have always sought to protect the wealthy, and over the past five years the influence of the rich has if anything increased. Anyone with an interest in any subsidiary entity should make immediate contact with the Liquidators.His foreign policy has been a kind of armed voyeurism, more worried about Russian money than incursions into Sevastopol.

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Members of the National Health Action party protest against the gradual privatisation of the NHS, in 2013. Nick Clegg and David Cameron announce the coalition government’s policy programme at a press conference in the rose garden of No 10 Downing Street. He’s the author of Chavs, The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It and the soon-to-be-released The Politics of Hope. The reform was instantly unpopular and saved no money, as evicted people paid higher private rents, which ended up costing taxpayers more in housing benefits. It was published in the United States on 24 September, and in e-book and audio with Cameron reading the audiobook himself.His concern was contained in a memo to the then cabinet secretary, Sir Richard Wilson, in March 2000. Just a few hours later, EDL leader Stephen Lennon told the crowd they were part of a "tidal wave of patriotism" that was sweeping the UK. During the late 1980s Lansley had employed a young Cameron in Tory central office as he worked on gas and electricity privatisation. The disaster of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act – presided over by the then health secretary Andrew Lansley – stemmed directly from unpublicised pre-election commitments to break the NHS up and introduce market competition, as a step towards realising the Thatcher-era dream of an insurance-based system where healthcare would be provided by profit-making companies. When Conservative MPs discuss the next general election, they frequently assert that they “deserve to win”.