Chris Mullin: Great Political Disasters

Chris Mullin: Great Political Disasters

By St Peter's School, York

Date and time

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:00 - 21:00 GMT

Location

St Peter's School

Clifton YO30 6AB United Kingdom

Description

From the Poll Tax to Brexit, from Suez to Iraq, author, journalist and former Labour Minister Chris Mullin discusses the great political disasters of the last century and the unintended consequences to which they gave rise. Iraq, for example, led among many other things, to the election of Jeremy Corbyn.

Chris will also be discussing his new novel, ‘The Friends of Harry Perkins’.

Part of York Literature Festival

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St Peter's School, York is the fourth oldest school in the world.

The St Peter's School Public Lecture programme is a series of lectures, talks and presentations by a range of expert speakers from many disciplines.

The School organises several of these per term. They are open to the public and completely free to attend.

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