Damian Collins.
DAMIAN COLLINS
RIVALS IN THE STORM: HOW LLOYD GEORGE SEIZED POWER, WON THE WAR AND LOST HIS GOVERNMENT (2024)
Along with Winston Churchill and Clement Atlee, David Lloyd George (born 1863) was one of the outstanding British Prime Ministers of the twentieth century. Lloyd George’s Welsh father William died when Lloyd George was only a year old; his mother moved to live with her brother Richard, a shoemaker, Liberal and lay minister. Heavily influence by his uncle, Lloyd George qualified as a solicitor and became active in Liberal politics. He became MP for Caernarvon in 1890, holding the seat for 55 years. His towering achievements were the leadership of the UK during latter, and critical, part of the First World War, and the enactment of a wide range of social legisation including the National Insurance Act of 1911.
Damian Collins’ biography of Lloyd George focuses on his period as Prime Ministser during the First World War. The Literary Review wrote of the book: ‘This study of David Lloyd George's premiership reveals once again that no more fascinating character, not even Disraeli or Churchill, has presided over the destiny of the nation.’ The Daily Mail wrote: ‘Brilliantly researched. Collins's book gives us a memorable overview of what was being discussed, urgently and sometimes furiously, in the club dining rooms and country house in which Lloyd George dined, his mind always focused on one thing: how to secure total victory.’
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Damian Collins (born 1974) was the Conservative member of parliament for Folkeston & Hythe from 2010 to 2024, when he lost his seat in the Labour landslide general election victory. He served as a minister in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and previously chaired the Select Committee for that field. He obtained his degree in Modern History at the University of Oxford, where he was President of the Conservative Association.
