GOD'S POLITICIANS: the Christian contribution to 100 years of Labour
By Graham Dale
HarperCollins. 269 pages. £12.99
ISBN 0 00 710064 7
This book can be seen as an expansion of the thought that 'the Labour movement owes more to Methodism than to Marx'.
It covers the century and more from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair who contributes a foreword. Because it covers such a period it is necessarily concentrated at times, but does manage to give a good overview of the history of the Labour Movement. Many of the names were active in my lifetime and my father would talk about the earlier ones.
