Britain Alone

Praise for Tony Blair Stephens ... has written easily the best - as well as the best informed - modern summary of Britain's still brilliant but now increasingly beleaguered prime minister. -- Washington Post on Tony Blair If anybody asks me, now, which is the best place to start reading on the kaleidoscope figure of Blair, I shall simply reply Stephens . -- Peter Hennessy, Financial Times on Tony Blair Today Tony Blair enjoys a great lustre in America than in his own country. And yet readers may end this well-informed and sympathetic book wondering how long it can be before the bloom fades. -- New York Times on Tony Blair Philip Stephens has produced that rare thing - an instant classic. Britain Alone is the codebook we need to unravel the six and a half decades between Suez and Brexit. -- Peter Hennessy Admirably lucid and measured, as well as studded with sharp pen portraits of the key players, Britain Alone gives us the fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britain's fateful, tragi-comic road to Brexit. -- David Kynaston Compelling.. Stephens tell the story with a journalist's eye for the interplay of personality and policy-making, backed by a deep knowledge of Britain's post-war history. -- Lawrence Freedman No-one is likely to write this modern history of decline with more brio and comprehensive insight. -- Chris Patten Having talked to many of the leading players over decades, Philip Stephens gives us a ringside seat at the drama of how Britain lost, found and lost again its post-imperial international role. Sad and fascinating. -- Timothy Garton Ash