Rhodri - A Political Life in Wales and Westminster — A Political Life in Wales and Westminster

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Hanes difyr a gonest o fywyd gwleidyddol Rhodri Morgan, cyn Brif Weinidog Cymru ac arweinydd y blaid Lafur yng Nghymru, bywyd a fu'n bur gythryblus ar adegau. Cawn olwg newydd ar y dylanwadau a'i harweiniodd i San Steffan, ar y degawd a arweiniodd at sefydlu Cynulliad Cymru ac at ddeng mlynedd cyntaf ei fodolaeth. 31 llun du a gwyn.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A candid and highly amusing account of the former First Minister of Wales Rhodri Morgan's political journey in Wales and Westminster. We gain new insight on the influences that led him into politics, on the decade leading up to establishing the Welsh Assembly and on the first ten years of its existence. 31 black and white photographs.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Foreword – Kevin Brennan and Mark Drakeford List of illustrations 1 The Cradle of Belief, 1939 – 1963 2 The Next Twenty-Four Years, 1963 – 1987 3 MP Morgan: Mainstream or Maverick, 1987 – 1997 4 Leadership Contests, 1997 – 1998 5 They Got Us Surrounded, 1998 – 1999 6 Getting the Show on the Road, 1999 - 2000 7 Earning Respect, 2000 - 2003 8 The Heyday That Wasn’t, 2003 - 2007 9 Working with Plaid, 2007 - 2009 10 No Back-Seat Driving, 2010 - 2017 Index

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Rhodri Morgan was the former First Minister of Wales and Welsh Labour leader.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Rhodri: A Political Life in Wales and Westminster is the political autobiography of Rhodri Morgan. This posthumously published account of the political life of the father of Welsh devolution is delivered with the fluency and wit that was so characteristic of the man himself. The first First Minister of Wales and Welsh Labour leader revisits the early influences that shaped him politically and which led him to Westminster, and his relationship with the Tony Blair and those running the 'New Labour' project and the party establishment’s campaign to prevent him becoming Labour leader in Wales, despite being the choice of party members and union members. In his own words, he details the two leadership contests he fought and how ‘the people’s choice’ eventually prevailed. He also offers insight to the workings of the Welsh Government, to the challenges of dealing with coalition government arrangements, and to how the stress of trying to sell one of those coalition agreements to party members landed him in hospital having heart surgery. As First Minister of Wales from 2000, he led three terms of Labour Government in Cardiff Bay, and navigated his own path into clear red water to present a distinct alternative policy agenda to the New Labour Government in London. With plenty to appeal to both political anoraks and the general public alike, this fast-paced and highly amusing inside story of the decade leading up to the creation of the Welsh Assembly will surely delight anyone interested in Wales and Welsh politics. Written with his typical lack of ostentation, this book allows us to read the final reflections by Rhodri Morgan on political life in Wales, in Westminster and beyond, with unique insight into the first ten years in the history of the National Assembly of Wales.