Bevan’s Boy

John Campbell

  • The Making of Neil Kinnock by Robert Harris
    Faber, 256 pp, £9.95, September 1984, ISBN 0 571 13266 9
  • Neil Kinnock: The Path to Leadership by G.M.F. Drower
    Weidenfeld, 162 pp, £8.95, July 1984, ISBN 0 297 78467 6

For several years, until he became Labour leader and had to watch his entry more carefully, Neil Kinnock claimed in Who’s Who to be the author of an anthology of the writings and sayings of Aneurin Bevan entitled What Nye said: each year the supposed publication date was authoritatively amended, although the book has never appeared. When asked about it by G.M.F. Drower, Kinnock prevaricated:

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