Bill Cash is the Member of Parliament for Stone. He was educated at Stonyhurst College and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read History, and has since practised law as a solicitor. He has been in Parliament for 27 years and was Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. He is Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons. The Spectator named him Parliamentary Campaigner of the Year in 1991. As well as being the author of several books on European affairs, Bill Cash writes regularly for national newspapers, including The Times and the Daily Telegraph and has made frequent appearances on radio and television. John Bright was his great-grandfather's cousin.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Unquiet Quaker: The Corn Laws outside
Parliament
Chapter 2 - The Corn Laws in Parliament: Harrying Peel
Chapter 3 - Parliamentary Reform: Manchester and Birmingham
Chapter 4 - The New Democracy: Converting Disraeli
Chapter 5 - Lincoln and Bright: Fighting Against Slavery and For
America
Chapter 6 - Justice for India and the Empire: A Just Foreign
Policy
Chapter 7 - Oppression in Ireland and British Sovereignty
Chapter 8 - Home Rule, Party Splits and the End
John Bright was one of the greatest British statesmen of the nineteenth century. In this new biography, the first for over 30 years, Bill Cash provides an incisive and engaging portrait of a man who influenced the politics of his generation more than virtually any other, with important implications for the present day.
Bill Cash is the Member of Parliament for Stone. He was educated at Stonyhurst College and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read History, and has since practised law as a solicitor. He has been in Parliament for 27 years and was Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. He is Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons. The Spectator named him Parliamentary Campaigner of the Year in 1991. As well as being the author of several books on European affairs, Bill Cash writes regularly for national newspapers, including The Times and the Daily Telegraph and has made frequent appearances on radio and television. John Bright was his great-grandfather's cousin.
...a thoughtful, intelligent book...
*Edward Pearce, The Guardian*
...masterfully recounted...
*Tristram Hunt MP, The Guardian*
Cash’s book, timed for the bicentenary of Bright’s birth in 1811,
will hopefully revive Bright’s memory…
*Anthony Howe, Journal of Liberal History*
Cash brings to the task both a personal connection to his subject
(Bright was his great-grandfather’s cousin) and an understanding of
politics, gleaned from being a Tory MP for 27 years.
*Richard Allsop, Institute of Public Affairs*
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