by Chris Mullin
Burma 208
Burnham, Andy 269
Burnham Beeches 104
Burnham Market 259, 260, 438
Burns, Simon 112, 312
Bush, Barbara 70
Bush, George W. 10, 146
Blair links Britain to 1, 36, 128, 174
after the London bombings 23
impotence after Hurricane Katrina 36
war on terrorism slogans 36
admits US addiction to oil 76
and Republican loss of control 134
video conferences 161
and Israeli attacks on Gaza 295
topics of 296
handover of power 301
Bush, Laura 70, 301
Business Committee (proposed) 429
Business questions 223, 384
Butler, David 296
Butler, Robin 180, 386
Byers, Steve 88, 126, 172, 244, 326, 327, 333, 387, 435
Byrne, Liam 7, 101, 171–2, 252
C
Cabinet, drug-taking in youth 192
Cabinet Office 26, 242, 250, 268, 282, 337
Cable, Vincent (Vince) 216, 333, 334, 398, 401
Caborn, Richard 25
Café des Amis, London 268
Cairns, David 265
Callil, Carmen 293
Cambodia 203–7, 367
Camden, London 97
Cameron, David 62, 88, 202, 408
Newsnight profile (2005) 37
and Tory leadership contest 43
his children 43–4
wins leadership contest 61
personality 61, 108, 275
and illegal immigrants 104
ICM poll 151
and Lords reform 158
and Blair’s last appearance as Prime Minister 185, 186
2007 conference 200
soaring ratings 201
lost child benefit record discs 214
popularity 262
at PMQs 271–2
and Osborne 285
death of son Ivan 309
and Darling’s 2009 budget 321
and MPs’ expenses 330
and a Europe-wide recession 347
the new Speaker 349
and CM’s diaries 373, 391
attacks ‘big’ government 379
and the Lisbon Treaty 389
Donoughue on 420–21
Camm, Peter 231
Campaign Group 39
Campbell, Alan 221, 235, 248, 309
Campbell, Alastair 74, 124, 147, 193, 197, 202, 254, 310, 369, 390, 394
Campbell, Duncan 316
Campbell, Menzies (Ming) 60, 184, 203, 333
Campbell-Savours, Dale 353, 354
Canary Wharf, London 265, 275, 412
cancer patients leaflet 441
Candler, Peter 256
cannabis 388, 421
Cape Town, Archbishop of 42
Capital Gains Tax 338
Caravelle Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City 366
Carlton Club, London 388, 434
Carlton Terrace, London 138
Carr, Maxine 129
Carrington, Peter 388
Carswell, Douglas 332
Cash, Biddy 44
Cash, Bill 44, 229, 335
cash for questions 303
casinos 162
Castle Eden Dene 212
CBI (Confederation of British Industry) 163, 188
Ceausescu, Nicolae 332
Chakrabati, Suma 14
Chambas, Mohammed 70
Chanctonbury Ring 8
Changi Airport, Singapore 360
Channel Four 19, 269, 302, 373, 435
awards 136, 149
Chapman, Ben 230
Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales 54, 83, 108, 331
Chaytor, David 420
Cheadle by-election (2005) 22
Chechens 312
Chelmsford, Essex 135, 438
Cheltenham literary festival 380
Cheney, Dick 10, 263, 371
Chequers 225
Chertoff, Michael 281
Chicago 282
Chilcot, Sir John 415
Child Benefit 358–9
Chillingham Castle, Northumberland 7
China 452
Heath’s blind spot 26
illegal migrant citizens 213
and the Congo 221
huge earthquake (2008) 244, 254
Africa policy 268
Chinese embassy, London 254, 258
Chirac, Jacques 24
Cholon, Vietnam 367
Christie, Julie 316
Church House Conference Centre, Westminster, London 42, 178
Church of England 186
Church of Our Lady Immaculate, Chelmsford, Essex 137
Churchill, Lady (Clementine) 385
Churchill, Sir Winston 65, 67, 153, 385, 388, 443
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) 60, 296, 387
City Inn, John Islip Street, London 154
Clapham, London 134, 214
Clarence House, London 331
Garden Room 54–6
Claridges Hotel, Mayfair, London 230
Clark, Alan 1, 101
Clark, David 104, 395
Clarke, Charles 154, 264, 342
as Kinnock’s minder 19
deportations of failed asylum seekers 18, 77, 90
London bombings 23
90 day detention clause 44, 45, 47, 50–51
and Blair 49
and loans for peerages crisis 86
and missing foreign criminals 94, 96
his future looks bleak 95
loss of office 97, 98
sets the cat among the pigeons 111
attacks Gordon Brown 124, 125
and the leadership contest 172
invited back into government 212–13
‘ashamed’ to be a Labour MP 325
Clarke, Kenneth 42, 301, 314, 397, 398
Clarke, Nita 123
Clarke, Richard: Against All Enemies 36
Clegg, Nick 335, 355, 372, 382, 442–3, 444, 446, 448, 449
Clelland, David 41, 148
Clements, Alan 432
Clerk’s Department 352
Cleveland Way 263
climate change 146, 403
Climate Change Bill 277
Climbie, Victoria 119
Clinton, Bill 69, 94, 291, 292
Cloisters Bar, Chelsea, London 182
Clwyd, Ann 6, 17–18, 78, 138, 140, 203, 204, 207, 350
CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) 21, 137
Co-op Bank 248
Cobbold, Lord 309
COBRA 23, 188
Coffey, Ann 338
Cohen, Hank 269
Cohen, Sir Ronald 430
Col d’Aspen, France 194
Cold War 281
Cole, Ashley 426
Cole, Cheryl 426
Cole’s Cranes 417
College Green, Westminster 439
Collins, Joan 32
Collins, Ray 294, 299, 353
Colville, Sir John (Jock) 65–6
Committee of Privileges 67
Committee on Standards in Public Life 298
Commonwealth Club, London 83
Commonwealth War Graves Commission 251
‘Communications Allowance’ 132, 389
Communications Bill 179
Compass 98n
Congo-Brazzaville 307
Congolese 91, 252
Congress House, Great Russell Street, London 292
Connarty, Mike 202
Conservative Party
conferences (2007) 200
conferences (2009) 379
leadership election (2005) 42–3, 61
Conservative Party manifesto (2010) 441
constitutional reform 188, 336
Constitutional Reform Bill 414
Continental Palace Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City 361
contribution holidays 163
Conway, Derek 226, 233
Cook, Greg 15, 1
10–11, 132, 315
Cook, Robin 6, 8, 33, 34, 40, 51, 130, 223
Cooper, Yvette 192, 211, 308, 309, 344
Copenhagen Summit on climate change (2009) 403, 404, 414
Corbett, Ronnie 397
Corfu 270, 278
Cormack, Sir Patrick 332, 436
Corston, Jean 43, 67, 107, 380
Coulson, Andy 354
council tax reforms 132
counter-terrorism Bill 234
Countryside Alliance 68
Court of Appeal 173
Courtauld-Thomson, Lord 104
Cousins, Jim 76, 326
Cowan, Rex 297
Coward, Noël 136
Cowie, Ian 318–19
Cowling, David 345
Cragside 267
Craig, George 273
Craigie, Jill 26
Crawford, Bill 199
Crawford, James 60
Crewe by-election (2008) 246, 247
Crick, Michael 37
Criminal Cases Review Commission 173, 275
crisis of capitalism 1–2
Crown Agents 249
Crown Prosecution Service, Newcastle 65
Cruddas, John 178, 330
Cryer, Ann 20
Cuba 249, 262
Cubbon, Sir Brian 434
Curran, James and Margaret 345
Currie, David 179
Curry, David 396
Curtis-Thomas, Claire 5
cyber wars 323
Cyprus 191
D
D Group 434
Da Nang, Vietnam 364
Daily Express 29, 32, 127, 288, 317, 322, 323, 402
Daily Mail 18, 26, 27, 32, 39, 127, 165, 197, 277, 282, 288, 316, 317, 320, 322, 335, 349, 388, 399, 402, 406, 426, 444, 446
Daily Mirror 94, 123, 317
Daily Star 32
Daily Telegraph 27, 46, 75, 105, 110, 121, 146–7, 151, 174, 182, 191, 213, 238, 268, 288, 293, 303, 311, 318, 322, 324, 327–8, 332, 334, 336, 347, 348, 349, 351, 355, 357, 359, 381, 389, 390, 396, 402, 426, 437, 438, 444
Dalai Lama 247
Dale, Mrs 11
Dalyell, Kathleen 12
Dalyell, Sir Tam 12, 68
Dannatt, General Sir Richard 149, 215, 357
Darling, Alistair 2, 110, 112, 187, 195–6, 213, 214, 225, 228, 230, 245, 258, 271, 272–3, 275, 288, 300–301, 320, 336, 338, 339, 340, 344, 353, 375, 387, 401, 408, 426
budget (2009) 321–2
budget (2010) 436, 437
pre-Budget statements 288, 401
Data Protection Act 447
David, Nora 146
Davidson, Ian 271
Davies, Philip 302
Davies, Quentin 185
Davis, David 17, 18, 39, 50, 97, 188, 251
Davison, Ian 336
Dawnay, Caroline 276
Dean Gallery of modern art, Edinburgh 369
Defence budget 138
Defence questions 131
defence spending 215, 307, 433
Delhi 293
Democratic Republic of the Congo 77, 85, 90, 171, 221
elections (2006) 117–18
children denounced as witches 119
Daphne Park in 253
Democratic Unionists 251, 413
Democrats (US) 414
Denham, John 106, 242, 314–15, 326, 381
Denham, Lord 66
Department for Communities and Local Government 101
Department for Education and Skills 51
Department for Enterprise 188
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) 88, 101, 102
Department for International Development (DFiD) 178, 181, 191, 198, 225, 306
launch of annual report 13–14
Department of Energy 79
Department of Health 7
Department of Industry, Productivity and Energy 6
Department of Justice 224
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 79
Desai, Megned 424
detention without trial 181
Devine, Jim 420
Devonshire, Duke of 66
Dewar, Donald 432
Diana, Princess 108, 147
Dinner with Michael Portillo (BBC programme) 388
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) 173–4, 181, 211, 214, 219, 234, 420
Dismore, Andrew 181
Dispatches (television programme) 435
Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire 385–8
Dobson, Frank 5–6, 33, 97, 271, 332–3, 334, 342
Dobson, Geoff 173
Doc-let, Vietnam 365–6
doctors’ pay 163–4
Dogger Bank 277
dolphin in Thames (2006) 73
Donohoe, Brian 104, 316, 420–21
Dorney Wood, Buckinghamshire 104
Dorries, Nadine 335
Doss, Alan 73
dot-com collapse 163
Dowd, Jim 336
Dowden, Richard 167, 269
Doxford business park 417
Doxford call centre 210
Dromey, Jack 86, 88
drug addiction treatment 273–4
drugs inquiry select committee 37
drugs White Paper 89
Duncan Smith, Iain 219, 249, 343
Dunfermline by-election 78
Dunwoody, Gwyneth 54, 176
Durham cathedral café 281
Durham miners’ gala 354–5
Duy, cousin (in Vietnam) 367
E
Eagle, Angela 41, 85–6, 94, 105, 115–16, 136, 145, 148, 161, 276, 323
Ealing by-election (2007) 225
Ealing Southall by-election (2007) 192
Earl Haig poppy factory, Scotland 282
East Herrington, Sunderland 164
Economist, The 162
ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) 70
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon) 216
Edgware Road tube station, London 22
Edinburgh festival 369
education
New Labour’s record 3, 63
Blair’s plans for an education free-for-all 46
reforms 51, 53–4, 58
White Paper 53, 62, 84