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Plot. Harry Perkins is the left-wing Leader of the Labour Party and Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central.Beating all the odds, Harry becomes Prime Minister following a landslide victory in the 1989 general election, and sets out to dismantle media monopolies, establish Britain as a neutral country through withdrawal from NATO, the removal of American military bases from British soil and ...
- Chris Mullin
- 1982
- 1982
- Novel
A Very British Coup is a 1988 British political serial adapted from Chris Mullin's 1982 novel A Very British Coup in 1988 by screenwriter Alan Plater and director Mick Jackson. Starring Ray McAnally , the series was first screened on Channel 4 and won Bafta and Emmy awards, and was screened in more than 30 countries.
- 19 June –, 3 July 1988
- John E. Keane
Aug 13, 2015 · A little later, the thawing of the cold war ushered in the supposed “end of history”, in which far-left politics were considered as extinct as the USSR and we were all supposed to be on the ...
Sep 24, 2015 · A Very British Coup 35 years on. 24 September 2015. Vincent Dowd. Mullin left Parliament in 2010 after 23 years as an MP. By Vincent Dowd. Arts reporter, BBC News. In 1982, Chris Mullin published ...
A Very British Coup: With Ray McAnally, Marjorie Yates, Geoffrey Beevers, Keith Allen. Disaster befalls the UK under a seemingly corrupt Conservative government. The Labour Party is elected - but committed to radical change, under a firmly left-wing leader.
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- 45 sec
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SBS: Silent Warriors. Saul David. William Collins, pp. 528, £25. The vast majority of the British public, and even military historians, have never heard of them. COPPists — a combination of ...
Feb 21, 2019 · The truth of the build up to the Iraq War was far more mundane: almost all of the plotting was done in the open, because even when the orchestrators were revealed to have lied they faced no consequences. The original Very British Coup, however, does stand the test of time. Last year we found out that undercover police officers had spied on at ...
