by Wright, Ben;
30. Chris Moncrieff interviewed by Ben Wright, April 2011.
31. Paul Seaward, ‘The House of Commons since 1949’, in A Short History of Parliament, ed. Clyve Jones (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2009), p. 290.
32. Lord Lipsey interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
33. Simon Hoggart, New Humanist, 2003.
34. Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (London: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 3.
35. Matthew Parris, Chance Witness (London: Viking, 2002), p. 237.
36. Lord Norton blog, 7 July 2009.
37. Ian Aitken, New Statesman, 4 December 1998.
38. Ian Hernon, recollections of Annie’s Bar written to Ben Wright, October 2015.
39. Chris Moncrieff interviewed by Ben Wright, April 2011.
40. Ian Hernon, written recollections of Annie’s Bar.
41. Chris Moncrieff interviewed by Ben Wright, April 2011.
42. Colin Brown interviewed by Ben Wright, January 2012.
43. Chris Moncrieff interviewed by Ben Wright, April 2011.
44. Andrew Marr, My Trade (London: Macmillan, 2004), p. 122.
45. The Herald, 10 May 2015.
46. Michael Boch, Jeremy Thorpe (London: Abacus, 2014), p.154.
47. Michael Skelton interviewed by Ben Wright, November 2011.
48. Sadie Smith interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2012.
49. Lord Strathclyde interviewed by Ben Wright, February 2015.
50. Samuel Pepys, Diary, Volume 2 (London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1924), p. 154.
51. Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now, Volume 2 (Oxford: OUP, 1982), p. 318.
52. Michael MacDonagh, Parliament: Its Romance, Its Comedy, Its Pathos (P.S. King & Son, 1902), p. 119.
53. An 1829 article for the New Monthly Magazine, reprinted in R.L. Sheil, Sketches, Legal and Political, ed. M.W. Savage (1855), pp. 183–6.
54. Philip Salmon, ‘The House of Commons, 1801–1911’, in A Short History of Parliament, p. 259.
55. Quoted in The Literary Companion to Parliament, ed. Christopher Silvester (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1998), p. 472.
56. Roy Jenkins, Churchill (London: Macmillan, 2001), p. 582.
57. Fenner Brockway, Inside the Left (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1942), p. 221.
58. Brockway, Inside the Left, p. 222.
59. Henry Fairlie, The Life of Politics (London: Methuen, 1968), p. 39.
60. Quoted by Matthew Laban in Total Politics, April 2013.
61. Frank Johnson, Out of Order (London: Robson Books, 1982), p. 58.
62. Lord Owen interviewed by Ben Wright, June 2011.
63. Ibid.
64. Michael Brown interviewed by Ben Wright, November 2011.
65. Ibid.
66. The Independent, 2 April 1988.
67. John Prescott with Hunter Davies, Prezza: My Story – Pulling No Punches (London: Headline Review, 2008), p. 108.
68. John Biffen, Inside Parliament (London: Andre Deutsch, 1996), p. 147.
69. The Times, 3 May 2004.
Chapter 3: Drying Out
1. Harriet Harman interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
2. Sunday Times, 11 February 2007.
3. Jeremy Paxman, The Political Animal (London: Michael Joseph, 2002), p. 239.
4. W.S. Gilbert, Iolanthe, Act II (Chappell & Co., 1882), p. 24.
5. Jenkins, A Life at the Centre, p. 618.
6. The Times, 29 August 2006.
7. Menzies Campbell, My Autobiography (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008), p. 205.
8. Ibid., p. 215.
9. Sir Menzies Campbell interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
10. Guardian, 2 June 2015.
11. Mail on Sunday, 11 July 2010.
12. BBC News Online, 11 July 2010.
13. Paul Flynn MP interviewed by Ben Wright, November 2011.
14. Eric Joyce interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2012.
15. Parris, Chance Witness, pp. 251–2.
16. Anonymous MP interviewed by Ben Wright, January 2015.
17. Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2011.
18. Sir Menzies Campbell interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
19. Michael White interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
20. Harriet Harman MP interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
21. Ibid.
22. Lord Lipsey interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
23. Nick Clegg MP interviewed by Ben Wright, November 2015.
24. Boris Johnson MP interviewed by Ben Wright, November 2015.
Chapter 4: Prime Ministers: Tipplers at Number 10
1. Blair, A Journey, p. 621.
2. Harold Macmillan, Diaries, Volume 2, Prime Minister and After 1957–1966, ed. Peter Catterall (London: Macmillan, 2011), p. 466.
3. J.H. Plumb, ‘Sir Robert Walpole’s Wine’, in Men and Places (The Cresset Press, 1963), p. 147.
4. Ibid., p. 148.
5. William Hague, William Pitt the Younger (London: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 26.
6. Ibid., p. 221.
7. Charles Ludington, ‘“Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men”: How Port Became the “Englishman’s Wine”, 1750s to 1800’, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 48, No. 2 (April 2009).
8. Lord Rosebery, Pitt (Macmillan and Co., 1891), p. 267.
9. Hague, William Pitt the Younger, p. 308.
10. Michael J. Turner, Pitt the Younger: A Life (Hambledon and London: Continuum, 2003), p. 144.
11. Ibid., p. 272.
12. Quoted in Hague, William Pitt the Younger, p. 535.
13. Ibid., p. 576.
14. Quoted in The Prime Ministers: Stories and anecdotes from Number 10, ed. William Douglas Home (London: W. H. Allen, 1987), p. 74.
15. Stephen Koss, Asquith (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 16.
16. H.C.G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
17. Quoted by Alan Watkins, Independent on Sunday, 28 March 2004.
18. Quoted in Koss, Asquith, p. 139.
19. Colin Clifford, The Asquiths (London: John Murray, 2002), pp. 192–3.
20. R.B. McCallum, Asquith (Duckworth, 1936), p. 34.
21. W.S. Churchill, ‘H.H. Asquith’, in Great Contemporaries (Thornton Butterworth, 1937), p. 137.
22. Quoted in Koss, Asquith, p. 187.
23. Roy Jenkins, Asquith (London and Glasgow: Collins, 1964), p. 412.
24. Quoted in Koss, Asquith, p. 210.
25. The Times, 1 March 1915.
26. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 268.
27. Cita Stelzer, Dinner with Churchill (London: Short Books, 2011), page xiv.
28. Quentin Reynolds, By Quentin Reynolds (London: Heinemann, 1964), p. 205.
29. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying and Quotation, ed. Elizabeth Knowles (Oxford: OUP, 1997), p. 228.
30. Stelzer, Dinner with Churchill, p. 182.
31. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 466.
32. General Sir Ian Jacob, Action this Day: Working with Churchill (London: Macmillan, 1968), p. 183.
33. Stelzer, Dinner with Churchill, p. 182.
34. Norman McGowan, My Years with Churchill (London: Souvenir Press, 1968), p. 88.
35. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 356.
36. Sir John Colville, Fringes of Power (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1985), p. 510.
37. National Archives, FO 1093/247.
38. Sir Alexander Cadogan, Diaries, ed. David Dilks (London: Cassell, 1971), p. 707.
39. Stelzer, Dinner with Churchill, p. 121.
40. Michael Dobbs interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
41. David Owen, Sickness and Power (London: Methuen, 2008), p. 40.
42. Martin Gilbert, In Search of Churchill (London: HarperCollins, 1995), p. 209.
43. Stelzer, Dinner with Churchill, p. 181.
44. Ibid., p. 184.
45. Ibid., p. 186.
46. Violet Bonham Carter, Daring to Hope (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p. 137.
47. Daily Express
interview, 8 November 1962. Quoted in Ben Pimlott, Harold Wilson (London: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 267.
48. Pimlott, Harold Wilson, p. 266.
49. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, Wilson (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1993), p. 166.
50. Ibid., p. 166.
51. Anthony Shrimsley, The First Hundred Days of Harold Wilson (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965), p. 32.
52. Joe Haines interviewed by Ben Wright, June 2011.
53. Blair, A Journey, p. 109.
54. Ziegler, Wilson, p. 470.
55. Lord Donoughue interviewed by Ben Wright, October 2011.
56. Bernard Donoughue, Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in Number 10 (London: Jonathan Cape, 2005), p. 152.
57. Joe Haines interviewed by Ben Wright, June 2011.
58. Ziegler. Wilson, p. 471.
59. Michael White interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
60. Lord Donoughue interviewed by Ben Wright, October 2011.
61. Joe Haines interviewed by Ben Wright, June 2011.
62. Lord Armstrong interviewed by Ben Wright, June 2011.
63. Bernard Ingham interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
64. Daily Mail, 30 January 2010.
65. Nicholas Henderson, Mandarin: The Diaries of an Ambassador 1969–1982 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995).
66. Michael Brown interviewed by Ben Wright, November 2011.
67. Quoted in Brenda Maddox, Maggie: The First Lady (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003), p. 140.
68. Ibid., p. 152.
69. Lord Armstrong interviewed by Ben Wright, June 2011.
70. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet: The Biography of Denis Thatcher (London: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 139.
71. Bernard Ingham interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
72. Michael Dobbs interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
73. Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 127.
74. Ibid., p. 148.
75. Ibid.
76. Chris Moncrieff interviewed by Ben Wright, April 2011.
77. Blair, A Journey, p. 621.
78. Ibid., p. 622.
79. Alastair Campbell interviewed by Ben Wright, February 2012.
80. Blair, A Journey, p. 622.
81. Damian McBride interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
82. Ibid.
83. Ibid.
84. Conversation between David Cameron and Ben Wright, December 2013.
85. David Cameron on the Andrew Marr Show, BBC, 10 January 2016.
Chapter 5: Pubs, Clubs and Parties
1. Nigel Farage interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
2. Damian McBride, Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin (London: Biteback Publishing, 2013), p. 50.
3. Damian McBride interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
4. Charlie Whelan interviewed by Ben Wright, April 2013.
5. Ibid.
6. Harry Cole interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2014.
7. Damian McBride interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
8. Alan Watkins in Roy Jenkins: A Retrospective, p. 34. Watkins describes a lunch with Roy Jenkins at L’Epicure in 1959. On this occasion Jenkins ordered an avocado pear to start, at the time a rather exotic dish. Jenkins sent it back saying it had seen better days.
9. Edward Pierce, The Lost Leaders (London: Little, Brown, 1997), p. 128.
10. Peter Oborne interviewed by Ben Wright, July 2014.
11. Kevin Maguire interviewed by Ben Wright, October 2013.
12. Peter Oborne interviewed by Ben Wright, July 2014.
13. Michael White interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2011.
14. Marr, My Trade, p. 179.
15. Jon Sopel interviewed by Ben Wright, August 2014.
16. Ibid.
17. Peter Oborne interviewed by Ben Wright, July 2014.
18. Kenneth Clarke speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, 4 January 2014.
19. Sir Menzies Campbell speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, 4 January 2014.
20. Baroness Williams interviewed by Ben Wright, October 2013.
21. Tom Watson MP interviewed by Ben Wright, October 2013.
22. Kevin Maguire interviewed by Ben Wright, October 2013.
23. Harriet Harman MP interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
24. Peter Oborne interviewed by Ben Wright, July 2014.
25. Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), p. 79.
26. Ian Lavery MP interviewed by Ben Wright, February 2015.
27. Kevan Jones MP interviewed by Ben Wright, February 2015.
28. Rob Phillips, Alcohol: A History (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014), p. 92.
29. BBC News, 27 June 2010.
30. Daily Telegraph, 23 July 2010.
31. Ian Lavery MP interviewed by Ben Wright, February 2015.
32. Oliver Heath writing on the LSE blog, 11 February 2015.
33. Brooks’s: A Social History, ed. Philip Ziegler and Desmond Seward (London: Constable, 1991), p. 45.
34. Amy Milne-Smith, London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), p. 94.
35. Brooks’s: A Social History, ed. Ziegler and Seward, p. 77.
36. Sir Charles Petrie and Alistair Cooke, The Carlton Club 1832–2007 (London: The Carlton Club, 2007), p. 234.
37. Petrie and Cooke, The Carlton Club 1832–2007, p. 189.
38. Barry Phelps, Power and the Party: A History of the Carlton Club 1832–1982 (London; Macmillan, 1983), p. 78.
39. Petrie and Cooke, The Carlton Club 1832–2007, p. 209.
40. Phelps, Power and the Party, p. 79.
41. Lord Strathclyde interviewed by Ben Wright, February 2015.
42. Jeremy Paxman, The Political Animal: An Anatomy (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003), p. 146.
43. Critchley, Westminster Blues, p. 89.
44. ‘Can UK political parties be saved from extinction?’ BBC News Online, 19 August 2011.
45. Lord Donoughue interviewed by Ben Wright, October 2011.
46. Damian McBride interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
47. Lord Strathclyde interviewed by Ben Wright, February 2015.
Chapter 6: Cocktails and Congress: Political Drinking in the United States
1. Kristen D. Burton, ‘“A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial America’, The Appendix, 25 February 2013.
2. W.J. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 21.
3. Ibid., p. 34.
4. Ibid., p. 20.
5. Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (New York: Scribner, 2010), p. 47.
6. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic, p. 154.
7. Sharon V. Salinger, Taverns and Drinking in Early America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), p. 3.
8. John Quincy Adams, Diary, 1794–1845, ed. Allan Nevins (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951), p. 47.
9. Thomas Jefferson to John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 16 December 1815, Founders Online, National Archives.
10. A Benjamin Franklin Reader, ed. and annotated by Walter Isaacson (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 108.
11. Oxford Companion to Beer, ed. Garrett Oliver (Oxford: OUP, 2012), p. 111.
12. Printed in the Claremont Review of Books, Vol. II, No. 3 (Spring 2002).
13. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic, p. 41.
14. William S. McFeely, Grant (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1981), p. 55.
15. Geoffrey Perret, Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President (New York: Random House, 1997), p. 262.
16. Rick Beard, ‘General Grant Takes a Spill’, quoted in the New York Times, 4 September 2013.
17. Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, ed. Anthony Jay (Oxford: OUP, 2001), p. 331.
18. Okrent, Last Call,
p. 130.
19. Ibid., p. 129.
20. Quoted in Garrett Peck, Prohibition in Washington DC (Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2011), p. 122.
21. Quoted in Peck, Prohibition in Washington DC, p. 125.
22. Quoted ibid., p. 96.
23. George Rothwell Brown, Washington: A Not Too Serious History (Norman Publ. Co., 1930).
24. Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass (London: Little, Brown, 2009), p. 360.
25. Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952), p. 147.
26. Robert H. Jackson, That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford: OUP, 2003), p. 137.
27. Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946), pp. 34, 68, 99, 119, 183, 186.
28. Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), p. 306.
29. Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), p. 336.
30. Ibid., p. 653.
31. Ibid.
32. Joseph A. Califano Jr, The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), p. 21.
33. Don Fulsom, Nixon’s Darkest Secrets (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2012), p. 187.
34. Fulsom, Nixon’s Darkest Secrets, p. 195.
35. John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power: The Nixon Years (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982).
36. An interview Nixon gave to Theodore White in January 1969. Quoted in Anthony Summers, The Arrogance of Power (London: Viking, 2000), p. 316.
37. H.R. Haldeman and Joseph DiMona, The Ends of Power (New York: Times Books, 1978), p. 45.
38. Henry Kissinger, Years of Renewal (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), p. 55.
39. Ibid., p. 55.
40. Walter Isaacson, Kissinger (London: Faber & Faber, 1992), p. 263.
41. Summers, The Arrogance of Power, p. 372.
42. Quoted in Summers, The Arrogance of Power, p. 462.
43. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days (London: Secker & Warburg, 1976), p. 395.
44. Mark Leibovich, This Town (New York: Blue Rider Press, 2013), p. 46.
45. Tip O’Neill, Man of the House (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1987), p. 148.
46. Donald Ritchie interviewed by Ben Wright, January 2013.
47. Haley Barbour interviewed by Ben Wright, June 2013.
48. Reprinted in The Clarion Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, 24 February 1996, p. 3B.
Chapter 7: From Canberra to the Kremlin
1. Guardian, 4 October 2009.
2. Bob Hawke, The Hawke Memoirs (London: Heinemann, 1994), p. 28.