A vivid biography in cinematic snapshots of David Lloyd George, one of the world's greatest statesmen.
Brought up in rural North Wales, David Lloyd George attended neither a grand school nor ancient university. He was very much an outsider. And yet he rose through the ranks with charisma, fierce intelligence and fighting spirit to become, as Churchill put it at his funeral, a man who 'stood, when at his zenith, without a rival'.
But his rise was not without its hardships, and in Rivals in the Storm, experienced MP and author Damian Collins focuses on the impact of Lloyd George's personality on other leading politicians, in driving progressive reforms through government, changing the course of the First World War to lead the Allies to victory, and cementing Britain's alliance with America.
Covering Lloyd George's emergence as the dominating political personality in Great Britain to the aftermath of his resignation, this fascinating biography takes you inside the rooms where the important decisions happened, and shows the bitter struggles as well as the triumphs of this great man of his or any other age, who nonetheless fell short of his own high expectations.

Prologue
The Brewing Storm
Man of Push and Go
The Cabal
The Powers That Be
Submit or Resign
Gentlemen and Players
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Mud Sticks
The Man Who Won the War
Prime Minister for Life
The Rules of the Road
Solver of the Insoluble
Things Fall Apart
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index

Damian Collins OBE was the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe from 2010 to 2024. He is a former Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy and was previously Chair of the House of Commons select committee for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Chair of the Joint Lords and Commons Parliamentary Committee on the Online Safety Bill. His first book was Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon, published by William Collins in 2016. He wrote the chapter on Lloyd George for Iain Dale's book, The Prime Ministers, published by Hodder in 2020. In the same series he has written about Theodore Roosevelt in The Presidents (Hodder 2021), and Edward VIII in Kings and Queens (Hodder 2023). Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost His Government was published in 2024 by Bloomsbury Continuum. In addition, he has written for a number of publications, including The Times, Daily Telegraph, New York Times, Irish Times, Guardian, Daily Mail and Wired.