Taking It On the Chin

Memoirs of a Parliamentary Bruiser

Biography & Memoir, Political, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Tom Pendry ISBN: 9781785900402
Publisher: Biteback Publishing Publication: March 17, 2016
Imprint: Biteback Publishing Language: English
Author: Tom Pendry
ISBN: 9781785900402
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Publication: March 17, 2016
Imprint: Biteback Publishing
Language: English

Surely one of the most colourful characters ever to have graced the Palace of Westminster, Tom Pendry has been a boxer, a bruiser and a scholar, whose political career as an agent, candidate, Labour MP and peer has spanned over sixty years.
As well as introducing key legislation, his time in Parliament saw him famously kick-start Tony Blair's political career, lead the first antiapartheid demonstration at a cricket match of an all-white South African side, and head up the successful fight to keep sport on Radio 5. During this time, he also took up the constituency case of a local GP complaining of cuts in drugs funding - Harold Shipman, Britain’s most prolific serial killer.
Well-known within the Labour Party as ‘the best Sports Minister we never had’, Pendry once dislocated his own shoulder showing Muhammad Ali how to punch, almost knocking out the world heavyweight champion’s wife in the process.
Full of revealing anecdotes and candid descriptions of colleagues, his memoirs throw new light on successive governments and great, epoch-making events, and are a mixture of light and shade, irreverent wit and deeply serious intent.

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Surely one of the most colourful characters ever to have graced the Palace of Westminster, Tom Pendry has been a boxer, a bruiser and a scholar, whose political career as an agent, candidate, Labour MP and peer has spanned over sixty years.
As well as introducing key legislation, his time in Parliament saw him famously kick-start Tony Blair's political career, lead the first antiapartheid demonstration at a cricket match of an all-white South African side, and head up the successful fight to keep sport on Radio 5. During this time, he also took up the constituency case of a local GP complaining of cuts in drugs funding - Harold Shipman, Britain’s most prolific serial killer.
Well-known within the Labour Party as ‘the best Sports Minister we never had’, Pendry once dislocated his own shoulder showing Muhammad Ali how to punch, almost knocking out the world heavyweight champion’s wife in the process.
Full of revealing anecdotes and candid descriptions of colleagues, his memoirs throw new light on successive governments and great, epoch-making events, and are a mixture of light and shade, irreverent wit and deeply serious intent.

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