The Prime Ministerial Court

Author:

Rhodes R. A. W.

Abstract

Abstract Court politics is about who in British Government did what to whom, when, how, why, and with what consequences. The book provides a thorough depiction of the court politics of the Conservative governments of the twenty-first century. It analyses the everyday practice of the dark arts by the British political and administrative elite. It shows that court politics matter because there are personal, electoral, and governmental consequences. It concludes that British government has a new Establishment skilled in knavery. The heart of the book is its account of the courts of David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. For each court, there is a description of its knavery; of the ways in which each practices the black arts. The specific topics include the courtiers; the Prime Minister’s craft; narratives, reshuffles, resignations, and leadership challenges, the political games of barons and parliament, cabinet and executive networks, and the feuds in the court between ministers, advisers, and civil servants. Knavery is everywhere. There is much evidence of betrayal, revenge, lying, scandals, and bullying with such machinations oiled by gossip, humour, alcohol, and leavened with harassment in its several guises. Each chapter has a short case study of the court in action; namely, the education wars, the 2018 election, and the Covid-19 crisis. Each case illustrates the personal, electoral, and governmental consequences of court politics. There are fewer and fewer ‘good chaps’ in government. There are more and more knaves. Decency is in decline. British Government needs ‘rules for rulers’. The book identifies several. Above all, it cautions citizens—beware, here be dragons.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

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