‘I will embarrass you now by saying that I always thought you should be Chancellor of the Exchequer’
Paul Foot, 17 October 1996
Sleaze: Politicians, Private Interests and Public Reaction
edited by F.F. Ridley and Alan Doig.
Oxford, 222 pp., £10.99, April 1996,0 19 922273 8 Show More
edited by F.F. Ridley and Alan Doig.
Oxford, 222 pp., £10.99, April 1996,
Changing Trains: The Autobiography of Steven Norris
Hutchinson, 273 pp., £16.99, October 1996,0 09 180212 1 Show More
Hutchinson, 273 pp., £16.99, October 1996,
The Quango Debate
edited by F.F. Ridley and David Wilson.
Oxford, 188 pp., £10.99, September 1995,9780199222384 Show More
edited by F.F. Ridley and David Wilson.
Oxford, 188 pp., £10.99, September 1995,
“... The abject surrender of Neil Hamilton, the ‘envelope man’ who changed the law so that he could sue the Guardian for libel, deprived the nation of an exhilarating and informative court case. When the Guardian alleged that Hamilton, Tory MP for Tatton, had taken money from Mohammed AI Fayed, chairman of Harrods to lobby Parliament against a Department of Trade inquiry which eventually denounced Fayed as a liar, the cocky MP announced that he was at last going to get even with the liberal press ... ”
