David Steel : rising hope to elder statesman
Michael Foot was speaking affectionately when in 1979 he quipped that David Steel had apparently gone from?rising hope to elder statesman' without any intervening period whatsoever. But the remark also neatly captured a career which had seen?the Boy David' enter the House of Commons aged only twenty-six, become leader of the Liberal Party in 1976 (at thirty-eight years old one of the youngest party leaders in British history) and then, within months of his election, lead his party into a controversial Lib?Lab Pact with James Callaghan's Labour government. Taking the lead in demanding coopera
eBook, English, 2012
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