Field The Rt Hon Frank
Field The Rt Hon Frank - Politics Poverty And Belief A Political Memoir - Hardcover
Field The Rt Hon Frank - Politics Poverty And Belief A Political Memoir - Hardcover
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Description: In this touching but also profound memoir Field explains two key factors in his upbringing the poverty of his own childhood and the deep and lasting effect of his Christian socialism as exemplified in the writings of F. D. Maurice and William Temple. Field has spent his adult life fighting against poverty in Britain through parliament and through his strong personal influence. Poverty for him has injustice at its root and as he explains in this book he has found allies on all sides of the political spectrum. He was appointed by Tony Blair to be the Secretary of State for Pensions but the reforms he advocated were so radical and essentially just that Tony Blair could not contemplate them and Field stood down. Previously he had been Chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee under John Major. As we read in this profound book he has been involved in the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and worked with George Osborne to pass the legislation for the Minimum Living Wage. The range of his campaigns is astonishing. With the Rowntree Trust he set up the Low Pay Unit (LPU) he battled with Chiswick Council to combat the corruption and injustice behind local housing lists. In politics he spoke out in the House against the corruption of greed and power and for this he became greatly admired by Margaret Thatcher. In the end Field's zeal for reform was too much for too many people. In 2015, Momentum (Trotskyite socialist political movement within the Labour Party) moved into his own local Labour party and managed to get him deselected. This is a political and personal memoir of quite exceptional importance and will be widely read not least because it is an implicit indictment of modern British politics the world of cash for questions Partygate and all the rest in which the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.
Title: Politics Poverty And Belief A Political Memoir
Author(s): Field The Rt Hon Frank
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781399408394
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 4/18/2023
Category: Politics & Government
Description: In this touching but also profound memoir Field explains two key factors in his upbringing the poverty of his own childhood and the deep and lasting effect of his Christian socialism as exemplified in the writings of F. D. Maurice and William Temple. Field has spent his adult life fighting against poverty in Britain through parliament and through his strong personal influence. Poverty for him has injustice at its root and as he explains in this book he has found allies on all sides of the political spectrum. He was appointed by Tony Blair to be the Secretary of State for Pensions but the reforms he advocated were so radical and essentially just that Tony Blair could not contemplate them and Field stood down. Previously he had been Chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee under John Major. As we read in this profound book he has been involved in the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and worked with George Osborne to pass the legislation for the Minimum Living Wage. The range of his campaigns is astonishing. With the Rowntree Trust he set up the Low Pay Unit (LPU) he battled with Chiswick Council to combat the corruption and injustice behind local housing lists. In politics he spoke out in the House against the corruption of greed and power and for this he became greatly admired by Margaret Thatcher. In the end Field's zeal for reform was too much for too many people. In 2015, Momentum (Trotskyite socialist political movement within the Labour Party) moved into his own local Labour party and managed to get him deselected. This is a political and personal memoir of quite exceptional importance and will be widely read not least because it is an implicit indictment of modern British politics the world of cash for questions Partygate and all the rest in which the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.
Title: Politics Poverty And Belief A Political Memoir
Author(s): Field The Rt Hon Frank
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781399408394
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 4/18/2023
Category: Politics & Government
