For 42 years Chris Williamson was a Labour Party member. In 2010 he was elected to Parliament
to represent his home town. However in 2019 he was unceremoniously suspended from the party
after being subjected to a smear campaign and he later resigned in protest at the betrayal.In
this forensic memoir - free of his Labourist clutches - Williamson provides a unique ringside
view. As well as lifting the lid on the amateurish politics-by-focus-groups under Ed Miliband
Williamson exposes some of the major events that created and deepened Labour's 'antisemitism
crisis' under Jeremy Corbyn.In his mission to set the record straight on numerous misreported
events Williamson names and shames the individuals - on the left and the right - whom he holds
responsible for delivering his former party back into the hands of New Labourism under Sir Keir
Starmer. To understand the existential crisis facing socialists in Britain today Williamson's
account of recent Labour history is indispensable.
