Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story Of Brexit

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Including a new foreword to bring the story up to date MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR OBSERVER BOOK OF THE WEEK'A compelling book' Evening Standard ' Essential' Sunday Times ' His soldier's dispatch is easy to read & vividly illustrates a sense of rising panic & embattlement If you want to know what it was like to be there at the time in the eye of a frenzied storm then Unleashing Demons should be bought' Andrew Marr Sunday Times ' Vivid & immediate It paints a brutally honest portrait of the British political class' Mail on Sunday 'A must-read account of history as it happened' Matt D' Ancona ' Jauntily writtennaughty fun' Quentin Letts ' Unleashing Demonshas the vividness & pace of a political thriller Extraordinarily candid' Financial Times 'A fascinating book' Robert Elms BBC ' The book that will set Westminster ablaze' Mail on Sunday ' Gripping reading' New Statesman ' Utterly fascinatingindispensable to appreciating this extraordinary phase in our history' John Simpson ' The compelling insider's account' Nick Robinson ' This is one of the most vivid frank & exciting inside accounts to have been written for years' Anthony Seldon 'A gripping fly-on-the-wall account' Robert Peston As David Cameron's director of Politics & communications Craig Oliver was in the room at every key moment during the EU referendum
- the biggest political event in the UK since World War 2 Craig Oliver worked with all the players including David Cameron George Osbourne Barack Obama Angela Merkel Jeremy Corbyn Boris Johnson Michael Gove Theresa May & Peter Mandelson Unleashing Demons is based on his extensive notes detailing everything from the decision to call a referendum to the subsequent civil war in the Conservative Party & the aftermath of the shocking result This is raw history at its very best packed with enthralling detail & colourful anecdotes from behind the closed doors of the campaign that changed British history