81. Rentoul, p368
82. Mandelson, Peter, The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour, London, HarperCollins, 2011, p243
83. Blair, Tony, interview, On the Record, BBC 1, 16 November 1997, transcript available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/otr/intext/Blair16.11.97.html
84. Macintyre, Donald, Mandelson and the Making of New Labour, London, HarperCollins, 2000, p488
85. Civil Servants’ and MPs’ Salaries, House of Commons Library Research Briefing, July 2013, http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06689/SN06689.pdf
86. Mandelson, p269
87. Mandelson, p271
88. Rawnsley, p220
89. Robinson, Geoffrey, The Unconventional Minister: My Life Inside New Labour, London, Michael Joseph, 2000, p6
90. Mandelson, p271
91. Rawnsley, p213
92. Mandelson, p273
93. Ibid.
94. ‘Declaring an Interest’, BBC News, 22 December 1998, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/240465.stm
95. Mandelson, p273
96. Rawnsley, p223
97. Mandelson, p275
98. Blair, Tony, A Journey: My Political Life, London, Penguin, 2011, p220
99. Ibid.
100. Robinson, p11
101. Leader of the Opposition (William Hague), letter to Prime Minister, 23 May 1999, reproduced in Written Evidence from Cabinet Office to Public Administration Committee, 17 March 2010, website of UK Parliament, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmpubadm/470/470we02.htm
102. Savage, Michael, ‘Pressure on Hague over His Role in Ashcroft’s Peerage’, Independent, 3 March 2010, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pressure-on-hague-over-hisrole-in-ashcrofts-peerage-1914998.html
103. Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, letter to Prime Minister, 27 March 2000, reproduced in Written Evidence from Cabinet Office to Public Administration Committee, 17 March 2010
104. Lord Ashcroft, memo to Rt Hon William Hague MP, 23 March 2000, reproduced in Written Evidence from Cabinet Office to Public Administration Committee, 17 March 2010
105. Secretary of the Political Honours Committee (Gay Catto), letter to Sir Hayden Phillips, 9 May 2000, reproduced in Written Evidence from Cabinet Office to Public Administration Committee, 17 March 2010
106. Phillips, Sir Hayden, letter to Rt Hon James Arbuthnot, June 2000, reproduced in Written Evidence from Cabinet Office to Public Administration Committee, 17 March 2010
107. Catto, Gay, letter to Sir Hayden Phillips, 22 June 2000, reproduced in Written Evidence from Cabinet Office to Public Administration Committee, 17 March 2010
108. Phillips, Sir Hayden, letter to Gay Catto, 29 June 2000, reproduced in Written Evidence from Cabinet Office to Public Administration Committee, 17 March 2010
109. Cobain, Ian, ‘Ashcroft: New Questions About His Peerage, His Tax and His Home’, Guardian, 9 November 2007, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/nov/09/uk.conservatives2
110. Ibid.
111. Lord Ashcroft, ‘A Broken Promise and Why I Wrote This Book: Lord Ashcroft Reveals How He Went from Supporter to Critic of David Cameron’, Daily Mail, 20 September 2015, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3242581/A-broken-promise-wrote-book-LORDASHCROFT-reveals-went-supportercritic-Cameron.html
112. Roberts, Bob, ‘Lord Ashcroft Tax Scandal: The Unpaid £127million’, Mirror, 2 March 2010, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lordashcroft-tax-scandal-unpaid-204696
113. Stratton, Allegra, and Polly Curtis, ‘Hague Only Found Out About Ashcroft Tax Deal a Few Months Ago’, Guardian, 3 March 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/mar/03/william-hague-lord-ashcroft
114. Arbuthnot, James, letter to Sir Hayden Phillips, 12 July 2000, reproduced in Written Evidence from Cabinet Office to Public Administration Committee, 17 March 2010, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmpubadm/470/470we02.htm
115. ‘CPS Decision: “Cash For Honours” Case – Explanatory Document’, Crown Prosecution Service, 20 July 2007, http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/latest_news/146_07_document
116. Moore, Charles, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 2: Everything She Wants, London, Penguin, 2016, p78
117. Blair, p686
118. ‘MPs’ “John Lewis List” ’, BBC News, 13 March 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7295150.stm
119. Dawar, Anil, ‘MPs Fight to Block Expenses Revelations’, Guardian, 7 May 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/may/07/houseofcommons
120. Öpik, Lembit, interview, BBC Wales, 13 May 2009; Bell, Sir Stuart, interview, Newsnight, BBC 2, 30 March 2009
121. Winnett, Robert, and Gordon Rayner, No Expenses Spared, London, Corgi, 2010, e1619
122. Porter, Andrew, ‘MPs’ Expenses: Ten Worst Moments Caught on Film’, Telegraph, 3 June 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5436939/Hazel-Blearsavoided-capital-gains-tax-on-twoproperties-MPs-expenses.html
123. Winnett and Rayner, e4666
124. Ibid., e1634
125. Hope, Chrisopher, ‘Michael Gove “Flipped” Homes’, Telegraph, 11 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5305434/Michael-Gove-flipped-homes-MPs-expenses.html
126. Winnett and Rayner
127. Winnett, Robert, ‘Oliver Letwin’s Tennis Court Repairs’, Telegraph, 11 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5305385/Oliver-Letwins-tennis-courtrepairs-MPs-expenses.html
128. Watt, Holly, ‘Alan Duncan Charged £598 for Lawnmower Repairs’, Telegraph, 5 November 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6508903/MPs-expenses-Alan-Duncan-charged-598-for-lawnmower-repairs.html
129. Rayner, Gordon, ‘Sir Gerald Kaufman’s £1,800 Rug and an £8,865 Claim for a Television’, Telegraph, 16 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5330816/Sir-Gerald-Kaufmans-1800-rug-and-an-8865-claim-for-a-television-MPsexpenses.html
130. Prince, Rosa, ‘Taxpayer Charged for Michael Ancram’s Pool’, Telegraph, 12 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5309953/MPs-expenses-Taxpayercharged-for-Michael-Ancrams-pool.html
131. Hope, Christopher, ‘David Davis, the Council Estate Lad Who Claimed £5,700 for a Portico’, Telegraph, 12 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5309646/MPs-expenses-David-Daviesthe-council-estate-lad-who-claimed-5700-for-a-portico.html
132. Watt, Holly, ‘Taxpayer Picks Up Bill for Sir Michael Spicer’s Chandelier’, Telegraph, 12 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5310404/MPs-expenses-Taxpayer-picks-up-bill-for-Sir-Michael-Spicers-chandelier.html
133. Pierce, Andrew, and Chris Irvine, ‘Anthony Steen to Stand Down as MP at Next Election’, Telegraph, 20 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5357365/MPs-expenses-Anthony-Steen-to-standdown-as-MP-at-next-election.html
134. Prince, Rosa, ‘Cleaning the Moat at Douglas Hogg’s Manor’, Telegraph, 12 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5310069/MPs-expenses-Clearing-themoat-at-Douglas-Hoggs-manor.html
135. Ibid.
136. Allen, Nick, ‘Sir Peter Viggers Claimed for £1,600 Floating Duck Island’, Telegraph, 21 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5357568/MPs-expenses-Sir-Peter-Viggers-claimed-for-1600-floating-duck-island.html
137. Hope, Christopher, and Jon Swaine, ‘Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton to Stand Down from Parliament’, Telegraph, 15 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5326205/Sir-Nicholas-and-Ann-Winterton-to-stand-down-fromparliament-MPs-expenses.html
138. Sparrow, Andrew, ‘Derek Conway Apologises for Overpaying Son with Public Money’, Guardian, 29 January 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jan/29/derek-conwayfined
139. ‘Ex-MP Elliot Morley Jailed for Expenses Fraud’, BBC News, 20 May 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ukpolitics-13467137
140. ‘David Chaytor Ja
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141. ‘Fraud MP Margaret Moran Given Supervision Order’, BBC News, 14 December 2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucksherts-20725315
142. ‘Denis MacShane Jailed for MPs’ Expenses Fraud’, BBC News, 23 December 2013, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25492017
143. ‘Lord Hanningfield Jailed for Fiddling Expenses’, BBC News, 1 July 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ukpolitics-13989329
144. Boden, Nicola, ‘MPs’ Expenses Farce: Scathing Report Orders Half of Them to Repay £1.3m but Judge Says “They’ve Done Nothing Wrong” ’, Daily Mail, 5 February 2010, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248422/Sir-Thomas-Legg-orders-MPs-repay-1-3million-overclaimed-expenses.html
145. Winnett and Rayner, e3826
146. Hinsliff, Gaby, Caroline Davies and Toby Helm, ‘The Week Britain Turned Its Anger on Politicians’, Observer, 17 May 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/17/mps-payexpenses-poll-tax
147. Dorries, Nadine, ‘Clarification’, The Blog of Nadine Dorries, 21 May 2009, http://blog.dorries.org/id-1387-2009_5_Clarification.aspx
148. Mulholland, Hélène, ‘Police Will Not Investigate Leaks to Media’, Guardian, 19 May 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/may/19/expenses-leak-police
149. ‘MPs Expenses’, Downing Street YouTube Channel, 21 April 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBX-j5l6ShpA
150. ‘Brown Apology over MPs’ Expenses’, BBC News, 11 May 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8043447.stm
151. ‘Expenses Focus Turns on Tory MPs’, BBC News, 11 May 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8043057.stm
152. Rayner, Gordon, ‘David Cameron Repays £680 Bill for Wisteria Removal’, Telegraph, 13 May 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5315163/David-Cameron-repays-680-bill-for-wisteria-removal-MPs-expenses.html
4. Gamblers’ Conceits
1. Shales, Tom, ‘Nixon’s Long Look Back’, Washington Post, 6 April 1984, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/04/06/nixons-longlook-back/7f45cc9a-d7d9-4af6-9a7d-923890e357d4
2. Wheen, Francis, Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia, London, Fourth Estate, 2009, p97
3. ‘Listen: “Blow the Safe and Get It” ’, tran script available at University of Virginia, http://www.upress.virginia.edu/2014/07/28/listen-blow-safe-and-get-it
4. Wheen, p114
5. Nixon, Richard, news conference, San Clemente, California, 29 August 1972, transcript available at American Presidency Project, University of California Santa Barbara, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3548
6. The Nixon Interviews with David Frost, syndicated broadcast, 19 May 1977
7. Wheen, p37
8. ‘Transcript of a Recording of a Meeting Between the President and H. R. Haldeman in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972 from 10:04 to 11:39 a.m.’, Richard Nixon Presidential Library, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/trial/exhibit_01.pdf
9. ‘Transcript of a Recording of a Meeting Among the President, John Dean and H. R. Haldeman in the Oval Office, on March 21, 1973, from 10:12 to 11:55 a.m.’, Richard Nixon Presidential Library, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/trial/exhibit_12.pdf
10. Wheen, p117
11. Bernstein, Carl, and Bob Woodward, All The President’s Men, New York, Simon and Schuster, 2012, p331
12. Macqueen, Adam, The Prime Minister’s Ironing Board and Other State Secrets, London, Little, Brown, 2013, p149
13. ‘Proclamation 4311: Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon’, 8 September 1974, available at American Presidency Project, University of California Santa Barbara, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=4696
14. Bloch, Michael, Jeremy Thorpe, London, Little, Brown, 2014, pxi
15. Ibid., p357
16. Ibid., p145
17. Ibid., p273
18. Ibid., p222
19. Preston, John, A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment, London, Penguin, 2016, p13
20. Bloch, p528
21. Ibid., p495
22. Ibid., p192
23. Preston, p29
24. Bloch, p142
25. Ibid., p230
26. Ibid., p305
27. Ibid., p422
28. Ibid., p382
29. Ibid., p383
30. Ibid., p402
31. Ibid., p428
32. Ibid., p463
33. Preston, p216
34. Ibid., p216
35. Bloch, p444
36. Ibid., p457
37. Ibid., p460
38. Preston, p240
39. Bloch, p474
40. Preston, p304
41. Private Eye, 23 July 2004
42. Crick, Michael, Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction, London, Fourth Estate, 2000, p270
43. Ibid., p275
44. Ibid., p264
45. Rawnsley, Andrew, ‘Archer Wins Record £500,000 Damages’, Guardian, 25 July 1987, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1987/jul/25/archer.politics
46. Quoted in Crick, p291
47. Ibid., p296
48. Ibid., p299
49. Ibid., p300
50. Reid, Tim, ‘Archer “Paid Aide To Miss Libel Trial”’, Times, 13 June 2001
51. ‘Jeffrey Archer: A Life of Lies’, Panorama, BBC 1, 19 July 2001, transcript at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/panorama/transcripts/transcript_19_07_01.txt
52. Crick, p413
53. Ibid., p445
54. ‘Jeffrey Archer Quits over False Alibi’, News of the World, 21 November 1999; ‘The Archer Tapes’, BBC News, 19 July 2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1436200.stm
55. Crick, p449
56. ‘Tories Punish Archer’, BBC News, 22 November 1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/532083.stm
57. ‘The Archer Trial: Key Players’, BBC News, 19 July 2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/archer/1437286.stm
58. Williams, Rhys, ‘Magazine to Name “Gay” Ministers’, Independent, 15 January 1994, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/magazine-to-name-gayministers-1400026.html
59. Marks, Kathy, ‘Bible of Left and Satirical Upstart Are Worlds Apart’, Independent, 29 January 1993, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/bible-of-left-and-satirical-upstart-areworlds-apart-new-statesman-is-80-scallywag-only-a-fledgling-1481386.html
60. Ford, Richard, and Philip Webster, ‘Major Asks Magazines for Cash’, The Times, 6 February 1993
61. Smith, Ramsay, and Gordon Hay, ‘What a Major Cook-Up Clare!’, Daily Mirror, 16 July 1993
62. Panther, Lewis, and Lee Harpin, ‘Major Lied to a Judge’, News of the World, 6 October 2002; Smith and Hay, ‘What a Major Cook-Up’
63. Campbell, Alastair, and David Bradshaw, ‘The Men Being Sued by John Major’, Daily Mirror, 29 January 1993
64. Young, Robin, ‘Currie “Insulted” by Link with Evil Film Character’, The Times, 14 May 1991
65. Garfield, Simon, ‘Currie Sues over Negative Image’, Independent, 25 March 1990
66. Young, ‘Currie “Insulted” by Link’
67. Ibid.
68. ‘The Secret Diary of Edwina Currie’, Private Eye, 18 October 2002, http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1323&article=621
69. ‘Currie Affair’, The Times, 28 September 2002
70. Dougary, Ginny, ‘ “John Was in the Whips’ Office, Sometimes Discussing Other People’s Affairs, Keeping Very Quiet About His Own”: Interview’, The Times, 28 September 2002
71. ‘Major and Currie Had Four-year Affair’, BBC News, 28 September 2002, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2286008.stm
72. Baldwin, Tom, ‘Currie Vents Her Anger at Major’s “Shame” ’, The Times, 30 September 2002
73. Dougary,‘ “John Was in the Whips’ Office”’
74. ‘Political PR:
Conference Eyewitness’, PR Week, 24 September 2004; Major, John, Speech to 1993 Conservative Party Conference, Blackpool, 8 October 1993, transcript available at Sir John Major website, http://www.johnmajor.co.uk/page1096.html
75. Lawrence, Lucy, ‘Major Used Me to Cover Up His Affair’, Sunday Mirror, 29 September 2002
76. Harding, Luke, David Leigh and David Pallister, The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken, London, Penguin, 1997, pxiv
77. Ibid., p110
78. As detailed at length in ibid.
79. Ibid., p134
80. Ibid., p73
81. Ibid., p78
82. Aitken, Jonathan, Pride and Perjury: An Autobiography, London, Continuum, 2003, p220
83. Harding, Leigh and Pallister, p164
84. Ibid., p166
85. Aitken, p221
86. Ibid., p219
87. Ibid., p155
88. Harding, Leigh and Pallister, p139
5. Sins of Spin
1. Heffer, Simon, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell, London, Faber and Faber, 2014, e1270
2. ‘Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” Speech’, Telegraph, 6 November 2007, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Rivers-of-Blood-speech.html
3. Heffer, e12812
4. Ibid., e12930
5. ‘ “Rivers of Blood” Speech’, Telegraph
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Heffer, e12829
9. Jones, Rupert, ‘My Grandparents, Enoch Powell and the Day They Fell Out over His “Rivers of Blood” Speech’, Guardian, 22 October 2016
10. Heffer, e12776
11. Ibid., e12424
12. Powell, Enoch, interview, Frost on Friday, London Weekend Television (LWT), 3 January 1969
13. ‘The Woman Who Never Was’, Document, BBC Radio 4, 7 March 2007, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007737v
14. Heffer, e12411
15. ‘Woman Who Never Was’, Document
16. Lord Howard of Rising (ed), Enoch at 100: A Re-evaluation of the Life, Politics and Philosophy of Enoch Powell, London, Biteback, 2012, e20439
17. ‘Twelve Minutes over Tripoli’, Panorama, BBC 1, 3 April 1987
18. Ibid.
19. ‘The President’s News Conference’, 7 January 1986, transcript available at American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=36812
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