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The Report That Broke Westminster
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
London, 2040. At ten past seven on an ordinary Tuesday, a policy paper on Northern Ireland's public finances becomes the most downloaded document in the history of British politics. By nine, sterling has moved. By the close of trading, two newspapers have gone to a second edition.
Two hundred and eighty of its pages are methodology. It's the last six that do the damage - six pages arguing that Northern Ireland's prosperity was built, deliberately, by decisions any government could take again.
Dr Aoife Kerrigan finds a copy squared to the edge of her blotter before she reaches her desk. There is no name on it. There is a note, in a hand she doesn't recognise: Read before the meeting. There is no meeting in her diary.
By half past nine she is running the review that will decide whether the report is right. What follows is seven months of clearance objections, leaked drafts, a semiconductor plant with four thousand jobs on it, and a slow, patient trail that leads back to a seminar room in 2029 - and to the person who has been quietly funding Aoife's career since before she knew there was a career to fund.
The Treasury would like the number to stop mattering. Aoife has to decide what she is willing to lose to make it matter more.
For readers of Robert Harris, Mick Herron and Jonathan Coe: a political thriller with no gunfire in it, where the weapons are footnotes, minutes and a forty-one page objection nobody produced in a hurry.
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