Palace of Varieties: Insider's View of Westminster

by JulianCritchley (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.25

  The conservative backbencher takes the reader behind the scenes in an amusing and irreverent anecdotal account of Westminster and its MPs. The lesser-known aspects of parliamentary life are here: ideology and ambition, the whips (the broederbond ), constituency fund-raising dinners and long-suffering political wives. Also revealed are the passions, rivalries and occasional humbug of the backbenchers and there are thumbnail sketches of the author's luckless colleagues - eg Kenneth Baker, a man who can strut sitting down .