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INDEX
A
Abbott, Diane 103
ABC News 276
Abraham Lincoln, USS 235–7
Abu Ghraib 237
Acheson, Sir Donald 207, 208
Addis, Rose 156–9
Afghanistan 151, 248
African National Congress 73
Agnew, Spiro 112
Aitken, Alexandra 139
Aitken, Jonathan 5, 71, 134–9
Aitken, Lolicia 136–8
Aitken, Victoria 137–8
al-Assad, Hafez 148
al-Megrahi, Abdelbaset 150–51
al-Qaeda 151
Albania 22
Alefantis, James 284–5, 287
Alexander, Danny 252
All Out War (Shipman) 182
Allpass, Caroline 113, 117
Ancram, Michael 101
Andrew Marr Show 192
Angleton, James Jesus 20
Antonio, Carol 145
Arab Spring 2011 151
Arbuthnot, James 94, 95
Archer, Jeffrey 2, 122–8
Archer, Mary 123, 124–6
Argentina 197–203
arms trading 136, 216–19
Armstrong-Jones, Antony, Earl of Snowdon 88, 114
Article 50 178, 185, 261
Ashcroft, Michael, Baron Ashcroft 92–6, 271–3
Astor, William, 4th Viscount Astor 36–7
austerity 254–6
Austria 147–8
Ayas, Said 136, 137
B
‘Back to Basics’ 133
Bain, Shirley 189
Baker, Steve 187
Baker, Terence 125
banking crisis 238–43
Banks, Arron 190
Bannon, Steve 278
Barker, Greg 35
Barnier, Michel 2
Bazoft, Farzad 217
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) 73, 85, 145, 183, 267, 281–2, 291
News at Ten 281, 282
Beaverbrook, William ‘Max’ Aitken, 1st Baron 14, 134
Belize 92, 95
Bell, Martin 80
Bell, Sir Tim 53
La Belle discotheque, West Berlin 149–50
Ben-Gurion, David 28, 32
benefit cap 163–5
Bercow, John 100
Berlusconi, Silvio 59–64, 82
Bessell, Peter 116–21
Bevan, Aneurin ‘Nye’ 31
Bezos, Jeff 277
Blair, Tony 5, 6, 66, 157, 251, 258, 290
and Colonel Gaddafi 151
and Ecclestone affair 81–6
and health scare 15
and invasion of Iraq 3, 223–32
and MPs’ expenses 98–9
and Peter Mandelson 89, 90–91
and Rupert Murdoch 245–6
Blaker, Peter 199–200
Blears, Hazel 99–100
Bloch, Michael 113, 116
Blunkett, David 246
Blunt, Anthony 25
Bow Group, The 177
Bowen, Desmond 226
BP (British Petroleum) 151, 264–6
Bracken, Brendan, 1st Viscount Bracken 14
Brain, Sir Russell 10, 14
Breitbart 177, 278
Brexit 162, 163, 166–7, 182–5, 292
Brexit negotiations 260
Leave campaign 173–4, 185, 186–90, 191–4, 263
‘Project Fear’ 2, 183
Remain campaign 173, 182–5
‘Stronger In’ coalition 182, 185
Britannia Building Society 88, 91
Brittan, Leon 268
Brock, David 284
Brook, Sir Norman 38
Brooke, Henry 40
Brooks, Rebekah 245–8
Brooman-White, Richard 24
Brown, Gordon 184, 188, 223, 234, 246, 258
and banking crisis 238, 241, 254
and Ecclestone affair 83, 84–5
and General Election 2010 249–50
and MPs’ expenses 104
and NHS funding 153–5
and Peter Mandelson 88, 90
Brown, Sarah 245
Browne review 250, 252
Brunei, Sultan of 73
BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) 204–9
Bullingdon Club 274
‘bunga-bunga’ parties 61, 63
Burgess, Guy 18–26
Burnham, Andy 281
Bush, George H. W. 280
Bush, George W. 3, 147, 151, 233–4
and invasion of Iraq 224, 231–2
and ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech 235–7
Business for Britain 177
Butler, Rab 13, 32
Butler, Sir Robin 76, 77, 221, 230
Butterfield, Alexander 110
Byers, Stephen 159
C
Calcutt, Sir David 54
Callaghan, James 67
Cambridge Analytica 292
Cambridge spy ring 17–26
Cameron, David 35, 95, 141, 152, 167, 169, 234
and ‘austerity’ 254–6
and Andy Coulson 244–8
and election reform 258
and EU ‘veto’ 175–6
and EU immigration 179–81
and General Election 2010 249–50
and MPs’ expenses 104
and NHS re-structure 252–3
and ‘pig’ story 271–4
and Remain campaign 184–5, 187, 192–3
and visit to Shetland 264–6
Cameron, Samantha 272
Campbell Davis, Trevor 158
Campbell, Alastair 90, 141, 156, 157–9, 187, 244
and Ecclestone affair 83, 84–5,
and invasion of Iraq 225–6, 228–30
Camrose, William Berry, 1st Viscount 14
Cantley, Sir Joseph 121
Le Caprice, London 125
Carman, George 77, 121, 137–8
Carswell, Douglas 186
Carter-Ruck, Peter 131
Cash, Bill 168
Caulfield, Sir Bernard 124
Chamberlain, Neville 27
Channel 4
News 273
Channon, Paul 74
Chapman, Patsy 53
Chartwell, Kent 12, 13, 16
Chaytor, David 102
Cheney, Dick 236
Chequers 16, 28, 85, 197, 245
Chesterton, G. K. 262
Chilcot, Sir John 227, 231
Churchill, Clementine 10–11
Churchill, Mary 10–11
Churchill, Winston 5, 9, 134
cover-up of stroke 10–16
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) 18, 20, 22, 31, 110
Clair Ridge oilfield 264, 266
Clark, Alan 217–19, 221
Clark, Elizabeth 10
Clark, Sir Kenneth 11
Clarke, Kenneth 162, 218
class 9
Clegg, Nick 177, 190
and tuition fees 249–53
Clifford, Max 50–52, 245, 267
Clinton Foundation 28
Clinton, William ‘Bill’ 3, 55–8, 280, 286
Clinton, Hillary 55, 57, 152, 283–4, 286
Cliveden 36
coalition government (Conservative–Lib Dem) 252, 254–6, 258–9
Coghlan, Monica 123–7
Colbert, Stephen 291
Colquhoun, Andrina 123
Colville, Jock 10, 12–16
Comet Ping Pong 284–7
Conqueror, HMS 198
Conservative Party 92–6, 167, 254–7, 258–61
Conway, Derek 102
Cooper, Andrew 188
Cooper, Yvette 281
Corbyn, Jeremy 65–6, 185, 249, 259, 281
Corry, Dan 159
Cosby, Bill 108
Cotterill, Druscilla 145
Coulson, Andy 104, 244–8
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease 204, 209
Cummings, Dominic 187–9, 194
Currie, Edwina 131–3
Cyprus 191
D
Dacre, Paul 272
Daily Express 14, 39, 69, 134, 174
Daily Mail 53, 54, 94, 120, 160, 175, 245, 282
Cameron ‘pig’ story 271–4
Daily Mirror 16, 120, 131, 244
Daily Record 265
Daily Star 122, 124
Daily Telegraph 14, 43, 48, 66, 166, 173, 175, 290
MPs’ expenses 99–101
Dalyell, Tam 200, 227
Danczuk, Simon 270
Darling, Alistair 100, 238–40, 254, 255
Davis, David 101
Day, Robin 8
de Gasperi, Alcide 10
de Sancha, Antonia 50–53
Dean, John 108
Dearlove, Sir Richard 231
Delors, Jacques 177
Democratic National Committee (DNC) 107, 109
Deng, Wendi 245–6
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 72, 75–6, 90, 126, 207, 217
Devine, Jim 103
Devittie, James 161
Devlin, Bernadette 123
Diana, Princess of Wales 71, 73
Dobson, Frank 82
‘dodgy dossier’ 232
donations to political parties 81–6, 92–6
Dorrell, Stephen 204
Dorries, Nadine 103
Douglas, Dorrett 126
Dowler, Milly 245
Downey, Sir Gordon 79
Duncan Smith, Iain 157, 158, 163–5, 173, 186, 190
Duncan, Alan 101
Dunkley, Lance 145
/> Duvalier, François ‘Papa Doc’ 73
E
Ecclestone, Bernie 82–5
Eden, Sir Anthony 8, 9, 11, 13
and Suez crisis 27–8, 30–33
Edgecombe, Johnny 38–9
Edwards, Huw 281
Egypt 27–32, 72
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 12, 16, 31–2
El Mahroug, Karima 59–64
Elliott, Nicholas 25
English, Sir David 53
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip 192
euro 169, 176
European Commission 177, 191–2
European Convention on Human Rights 162
European Union (EU) 175–6, 1975 referendum 168, 170–71
2015 referendum 259, 291 creation of 166–71
‘Four Freedoms’ 180
free movement 180–81 legislation 177–8 regulations 172
Turkish application 191–4
see also Brexit
Evening News 121
Evening Standard 14, 158
Exaro 268, 270
F
Facebook 281, 285
Fahd, Prince Muhammad bin 135, 136–7, 139
‘fake news’ 2, 281–2, 283–7
Falklands War 197–203
Farage, Nigel 1, 80, 167, 168, 177, 190, 193
Fayed, Mohamed 2
and Neil Hamilton scandal 71–7, 79–80
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 23, 110, 114
Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile 82
Financial Services Authority 240
Financial Times 14, 54, 259
Fiorillo, Annamaria 59–60
Fixed-term Parliaments Act 259, 261
Fleming, Ian 32
Fletcher, WPC Yvonne 147
‘flipping’ (MPs’ expenses) 99–100, 102
For Your Eyes Only 201
Ford, Gerald 112
Formula One 82
Foster, Roderick 145
Fox News 237, 275
France 28
Francis, Ted 125, 127
Freedom of Information Act 95, 98–9, 290
Frost, David 145
G
Gaddafi, Colonel Muammar 147–51, 232
Gaddafi, Hana 149
Gaitskell, Hugh 169
Galbraith, Thomas ‘Tam’ 40
Gamal Abdel Nasser, 27–31
Garel-Jones, Tristan 221
General Belgrano 197–202
General Election 1951 8, 9
General Election 1983 201
General Election 1997 80, 138
General Election 2010 95, 184, 249–52, 254, 271
General Election 2015 252, 259
General Election 2017 260–61
Germany 149, 180–81
Gibson, Ian 100
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