Book Report on: A Geddes and J Tonge (Editors), "Britain Decides". The UK General Election 2005 (Palgrave)

This book tells the story of Labour's third victory. Geddes and Tonge describe this election as a "rather dull campaign that produced some rather intriguing results" . In this book review I aim to summarise the main points which they have raised which justifies this description of the election and then to offer a critical analysis of these points.
The outcome of this general election was that Labour's majority was slashed and this has been mainly due to Tony Blair's credibility being battered thanks to the Iraq war. The Iraq war issue proved to be highly divisive. …