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Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction: You Haven't Much Time! -- Chapter One: Born to Elections -- Chapter Two: Gung-Ho for War -- Chapter Three: In the Absence of Cricket -- Chapter Four: Surveying America -- Chapter Five: Into the Family Trade -- Chapter Six: Telly Don -- Chapter Seven: A Speedometer Type Device -- Chapter Eight: Gilded Year in Georgetown -- Chapter Nine: Buccaneering Butlers -- Chapter Ten: College Man -- Chapter Eleven: The Love of His Life -- Chapter Twelve: Which Is Butler? Which Is Stokes? -- Chapter Thirteen: An English Don Abroad -- Chapter Fourteen: Academic Entrepreneur -- Chapter Fifteen: Consensus Pinko -- Chapter Sixteen: The Rector's Husband -- Chapter Seventeen: The Rules Overturned -- Conclusion: A Life to the Full -- Appendix: From Academic Aristocracy -- The Butler Family Tree -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Plates -- Copyright -- Endpapers

Title Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1: 'I Call This an Outrage' -- 2: The Permanent Revolutionary -- 3: The Liverpool Connection -- 4: Enter Militant -- 5: Policies and Perspectives -- 6: Operation Icepick -- 7: The Organisation -- 8: Militant's Money -- 9: Militant Abroad -- 10: The Militant Life -- 11: The Sacrificial Lambs -- 12: Militant Merseyside -- 13: Hatton's Army -- 14: The Tendency Tacticians -- Conclusion: Neil Kinnock's Falklands -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: Militant Candidates Standing for the Labour Party National Executive, 1971-83 -- Appendix 2: Militant Candidates in Elections -- Appendix 3: The Militant Leadership -- Appendix 4: The Constitution of the Revolutionary Socialist League/Militant (1962) -- Appendix 5: The Constitution of the Committee for the Workers' International (CWI) (1974) -- Appendix 6: The Growth of Militant Membership, 1965-86 -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index -- A, B, C -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X -- Y, Z -- Copyright

The return of a hung parliament at the 2010 general election is a serious possibility. But due to Westminster's limited recent experience of parliaments under 'no overall control' there is little institutional memory in Whitehall or Westminster, and even less public understanding, of what the implications would be. This article sets out to analyse the principal challenges that would be faced by government, opposition, parliament and the media in the event of a hung parliament. Drawing on experience from Canada, New Zealand and Scotland, we discuss the difficulties that may arise during the immediate government formation process and in the course of making minority or multiparty governance work on an ongoing basis. We conclude that a hung parliament need not undermine political stability or effective governance, but that all actors would need to adapt their behaviour and should therefore prepare carefully for this eventuality.