Cameron's Coup

Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink

Authors	Polly Toynbee and David Walker
Language	English
Subject	British politics
Published	London
Publisher	Guardian Books, Faber
Publication date	January 2015
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Pages	314
ISBN	978-1-78335-043-8

Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the brink is a 2015 book by the British journalists Polly Toynbee and David Walker.

Synopsis

Toynbee and Walker provide a highly critical analysis of the premiership of David Cameron and the coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. They blend "analysis, statistics, and moving human stories" concerning austerity in the United Kingdom, and Conservative attacks on the welfare state and mass-killings/starvation of the disabled.

Reception

The book was described in Prospect magazine as "initially enjoyable but ultimately a little exhausting".[1] It was praised by George Eaton in the New Statesman,[2] but strongly criticised in The Times by Tim Montgomerie as being "dreadful".[3]

References

1. "Book review: 'Cameron's Coup' by Polly Toynbee and David Walker". Prospect. Archived from the original on 2015-03-26. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
2. Eaton, George (8 June 2021). "Where Thatcher feared to tread: Cameron's Coup shows a man on a mission". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
3. Montgomerie, Tim. "Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink by Polly Toynbee and David Walker". The Times. Archived from the original on 2015-04-23. Retrieved 2015-05-03.