After the Coalition: A Conservative Agenda for Britain

by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab

In After the Coalition five new Conservative Members of Parliament tackle the challenges of contemporary Britain. They argue that Conservative principles adapted to the modern world are essential for national success. For Britain to prosper in today's global economy, we need a new era of responsibility, for governments as well as individuals. The Conservative Party last won a general election in 1992. The formation of the coalition in 2010 ushered in a politics of compromise for the important task of bringing the deficit under control. At the next election, the Conservative Party may well fight for its own mandate. What that will be and the ideas supporting it need to be defined now. After the Coalition is an attempt to do precisely this.

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2011

About the author

Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng is a British politician and historian. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as a member of parliament (MP) since 2010, representing the constituency of Spelthorne in Surrey.

Reviews

[Steve Bowbrick · Rating 1 out of 5]

I cannot bring myself to review this book, although it is quite an important text - because it came before the one everyone talks about, Britannia Unchained (which I did manage to review), and it's a more detailed, slightly less rhetorical, exposition of what became the Kwarteng/Truss position (RIP). Several members of the Ayn Rand reading club are involved: Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore, and Liz Truss. It's got a picture of David Cameron on the cover although he is, for the purposes of this book, the enemy.