What went wrong with Britain?

'Passionate, provocative and timely - an excoriating across-the-board audit from an impressive line-up of experts and an indispensable resource for anyone who cares about our country and hopes to see it change for the better.'
Tim Bale, author of The Conservative Party after Brexit

'Inspired, as the authors admit, by frustration and despair, this book nevertheless provides important and acute analytical assessments of what went wrong under the Conservatives.'
Anand Menon, co-author of Brexit and British Politics

'A uniquely comprehensive guide to the ruins that are collapsing all around us. The evidence collected in the book is so powerful that, as its conclusion argues, we now have only one course of action: to end the domination of a financial oligarchy whose extreme wealth is founded on the tragedies described so systematically here.'
David Whyte, author of Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us

'Everything you would expect is here and quite a bit more. Matthew Watson charts the collapse of the Conservative Party - under Johnson of course, but also his successors - into populist crowing about British exceptionalism to mask governmental incompetence, most infamously during the Covid pandemic. James Morrison catalogues the years of denial about the UK's structural and ever-widening levels of inequality, rooted in "moralising neoliberal narratives that individualise responsibility for poverty." Claire Thompson, Dianna Smith and Laura Hamilton highlight Britain's food poverty - among the worst in Europe. The chapter on the NHS is particularly telling.'
Mike Phipps, Labour Hub