by Chris Mullin
Martlew, Eric 234, 235, 255
Masham, Lady 104
maternity leave 197
Matt cartoons 350
Maude, Francis 386
May, Theresa 46, 158
Maynard, Joan 37, 347
Mayor of London 232, 240–41
Mbeke, Thabo 70
Meacher, Michael 5, 126, 138–9, 170, 172, 174, 175, 239–40, 311
Meacher, Molly 309
al-Megrahi, Abdel-baset 370–71
Mellor, David 74
Members Estimates Committee 255
Mendelssohn, Felix: Elijah 139
Merkel, Angela 318, 374
Methodist Central Hall, London 76, 371
Metropole Hotel, Brighton 39
Mexico: swine flu (2009) 323
Meyer, Christopher: DC Confidential 125–6
M15 146, 434
Michael (CM’s assistant) 268, 419
Michel, Louis 70
Middlesbrough FC 266
Middlesbrough town hall 375
Milburn, Alan 17, 46, 53–4, 80, 89–90, 99–100, 154, 161, 171, 172, 202, 244, 253, 271, 333, 341, 344, 395, 437
Milburn, Ruth 395
Milburn/Clarke ‘website’ 154
Miliband, David 84, 101, 123, 144, 161, 187, 191, 227, 231, 236–7, 242, 244, 253, 255, 260, 262, 263, 297, 343, 345, 346, 427
Miliband, Ed 84, 85, 268, 277, 294, 304, 427
Millennium Dome, Greenwich 180
Miller, Andrew 229
Miller, Sienna 32
Millfield by-election 87
Milosevic, Slobodan 105, 176
ministers’ pay 220
Ministry of Defence 181, 293
bearskin imports 83
defence spending 215, 307
leaked documents 3
Mirren, Helen 148
Mirror Group Newspapers 317
Mississippi mortgage crisis 424
Mitchell, Andrew 20, 373
Mitchell Library, Glasgow 432
mobile phones 165
Modernisation Committee 8
Mohammed, Binyam 312
Moldova 287
Monet, Claude 55
Monkwearmouth School, Sunderland 289–90
Monrovia, Liberia 69–72
Hard Rock compound 70, 73
Capitol 70
Montréal du Gers 34, 193, 261
Moran, Margaret 335
Mordey, Michael 260
Morgan, Julie 123
Morgan, Piers 310
Morgan, Sally 10
Mori polls 106
Morley, Elliot 102, 331–2, 420
Morocco 18
Morris, Estelle 62
Morris, John 323
Morris, Sir Keith 28
Morrison, Herbert 422
Morse, Amyas 386
Mottram, Sir Richard 327, 386, 387
Mowbray Park, Sunderland 391, 398
Mowlam, Mo 35
Mozambique, President of (Armando Guebuza) 138
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 434
MPs’ expenses 1, 226, 232, 255, 298, 314, 317, 318–19, 320–21, 327–33, 335, 336, 337, 339, 340, 344, 345, 347–8, 352, 380, 381, 390, 420, 442
MPs’ pay 220, 223, 255, 390
Mudie, George 123, 327
Mugabe, Robert 105, 397
Muir, David 245
Mullin, Christopher John (Chris)
education (University of Hull) 423–4
loss of office (May 2005) 1, 3, 4, 10, 13, 19, 26, 36–7, 57
farewell audience with Blair 9–10
offered Africa envoy post 9–10, 19
continuation of ‘meteoric downfall’ 20
during London bombings 22
Afghanistan drug policy conference 27–8
holiday in France 34–5
visits Clarence House 54–6
Liberia visit 69–73
first attends Standards and Privileges Committee 74
in Uganda 81–3
visits Dorney Wood 104
joins board of Prison Reform Trust 106
at Highgrove 107–8
in Kinshasa 117–19
death of his mother 134–5, 137
in Nigeria 166–70
twenty years since first elected 180
visits Cambodia and Vietnam 203–9
sixtieth birthday 220
impending retirement 236, 241–2, 243–4, 248, 284
expenses 331
considered for Speaker post 333, 334
black-and-white television 334, 335, 348
in Vietnam (2009) 360–67, 392
at Ditchley 385–8
acting chairman of Standards and Privileges Committee 396–7
delivers last speech in Parliament (25 March 2010) 436, 438, 450–56
and prorogation 440
leaves the House of Commons 440
Error of Judgement: the Truth about the Birmingham Bombings 4, 174
A Very British Coup 107, 253, 274n, 280, 304
A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin 1, 3, 311–12, 313, 315, 318, 369, 373, 391, 434, 438
The Year of the Fire Monkey 253
Mullin, Emma (CM’s daughter) 16, 24, 29, 30, 35, 83–4, 117, 141, 152, 171, 182, 194, 212, 243–4, 251, 260, 262, 266, 281, 300, 334, 359–60, 362, 393, 405, 407, 425, 439
Mullin, Leslie (CM’s father) 91, 92, 135, 351
Mullin, Liz (CM’s sister) 24, 63–4, 113, 135, 228, 438
Mullin, Pat (CM’s sister) 4
Mullin, Sarah (CM’s daughter) 16, 24, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 67, 88, 91, 92, 117, 122, 210, 243, 252, 261, 280, 281, 297, 318, 362, 364, 405, 410, 439, 441, 442
Mullin, Teresa (CM’s mother) 11, 16, 24, 26, 33, 63–4, 91, 92, 113, 119–20, 121, 125, 130, 134–5, 137, 146, 170, 256, 438
Munn, Meg 6, 192
Murdoch, James 369
Murdoch, Rupert 354, 369, 378, 394, 407, 445
Murphy, Jim 15–16, 229, 249
Murphy, Paul 189
Museveni, Yoweri 44, 53, 83
N
National Audit Office 214
National Bullying Helpline 425, 426
National Executive Committee (NEC) 41, 88, 89, 115, 136, 157, 161, 248, 287, 337
National Gallery, London 269
National Health Service (NHS) 130, 273, 372, 408, 423
doctors’ salaries 89, 93
funding crisis 89
waiting lists 89, 393, 451
reorganisation 101
Cameron on the cuts 129
doctors’ poll 151 see also health
National Insurance 288, 401, 423, 437, 438, 439
National Lottery 40, 56
national minimum wage 229
National Youth Agency 284
NATO 138, 227, 263, 291
Natwest 301
Naughtie, Jim 443
Neave, Airey 50
neo-liberal experiment 452
New Labour
benefits of the administration 2–3
Tony Benn denounces 38
many enemies of 39
first ever defeat 50
‘shiny New Labour types’ 53
obsession with news management 62
plans for trust schools 66
the elite 84, 93, 143, 152
‘in meltdown’ 123
addiction to reorganisation 130–31
Gilligan on 165
love affair with rich men 166
Afghanistan drugs policy 189
neutralised the party 216
and the unions 248
fair-weather friends 266
and Rupert Murdoch 378, 394
obsession with innovation 404
manifesto (2010) 441
end of the New Labour era 449
New Lanark, South Lanarkshire 12–13
New Orleans floods (2005) 35
New Statesman 266, 427
New York Times 407
Newcastle 65, 254, 451
Newham Town Hall, London 74
&nbs
p; News International 128
News of the World 61, 314, 354
Newsnight (television programme) 59, 87, 333, 377
Newsweek 385
Nguyen Co Thach 208
Nguyen Thi Ngoc (CM’s wife) 16, 29, 34, 43, 46, 67, 83–4, 95, 110, 117, 125, 187, 193–5, 212, 228, 229, 241, 248, 281, 303, 317, 334, 358, 361, 362, 363, 366, 367, 405, 410, 429, 435
Niger, famine in 30–31, 35–6
Nigeria
CM’s visit of 2005 317
presidential elections (2007) 166–70
illegal migrant citizens 213
night flights 15
Nissan 293, 358, 370, 383, 417
Nixon, Richard 159
Nkosi, Mrs (Nigerian foreign minister) 70
Noeleen (Noeleen Delaney, OBE) 440
North East Pensioners’ Convention 164
North Korea 145
Northern Alliance 312
Northern Night, Bournemouth 198
Northern Rock 195–6, 210, 213, 228, 232
Norton, Professor 423
Norway debate (1940) 65, 332
Norwich North by-election 359
Noye’s Fludde (Britten) 150
nuclear power 79
nuclear weapons 7, 20, 21, 23, 75, 324
Number 10, Downing Street, London: Pillared Drawing Room 181
nursery care 217
nurses’ pay 163
O
Obama, Barack 280, 330
‘an Arab’ and a terrorist suggestion 274
elected president 282
and ‘Star Wars’ 291, 323
and Israel 295, 296
and the US prison system 292
sworn in 301
in Downing Street 317
and G20 318
‘Obama snubs Gordon’ stories 330, 374
and the Israeli war 357
Facebook poll 378
M on 398–9
Obama, Michele 267
Obasanjo, Olusegun 70, 168, 169–70
Oborne, Peter 308, 349, 369
O’Brien, Mike 7, 50–51, 87, 277
Observer 375, 425
Observer Book of the Year 391
Odette 297
O’Donnell, Gus 189, 426
OFCOM 179, 301, 369
Ofsted inspectors 217
Oldie literary lunch (London, 2009) 343, 415
Olmert, Ehud 258
Omand, Sir David 386, 388
‘Operation Crevice’ 28
Osborne, George 60, 61, 200, 213, 228, 270, 271, 272, 278–9, 285, 286, 288–9, 301, 379, 392, 397, 398, 401, 408, 409, 419
O’Toole, Peter 415
outsourcing, growth of 454
Oval tube station bomb, London 28
Owen, Robert 12–13
Oxfam 73, 135, 137
Oxford 297, 410, 442
Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, London 434
Oxford University 79
P
Paisley, Ian 49
Pakistan 27, 289, 291, 355
US involvement 399
Pallion Engineering 256, 276
Palmer, Adrian 104
Pancetta, Leon 296
Parham House & Gardens, West Sussex 33, 120
Park, Daphne 240, 253, 296–7, 436
Parliament choir 434
Parliament Street, London (N0.1) 90, 126
Parliamentary Labour Party 5, 25, 40–41, 42, 47, 53, 58, 77, 84, 86, 88–9, 98–9, 110–11, 137, 138, 140, 148, 152, 159, 161, 174, 180, 185, 191, 201–2, 218, 222, 234, 244, 248, 250, 271, 282, 286–7, 297–8, 303–4, 308, 320, 323, 329, 332, 341–3, 346, 353, 381, 402
centenary (2006) 77–8
Parliamentary Monitor, The 165
parliamentary sittings
recess dates 51
September sittings 344, 345, 371, 383, 384
summer recess 8, 16, 40, 44, 113, 344
party chairman, in the Cabinet 157
party funding 84–9, 93–4, 96, 116, 139–40, 148, 155, 158, 161, 202, 215–16, 217–18, 224, 353, 428, 433, 438, 454
Patch, Harry 285
Paulson, Hank 375
Paxman, Jeremy 333, 334, 377
Paxton, Northumberland 235
Pay, Jill, Serjeant at Arms 290
Pearson, Ian 101–2
peerages, cash for 84, 157
Peirce, Gareth 47
Pennywell, Sunderland 227, 313
Pennywell School, Sunderland 313–14
Pennywell Youth Project 284, 404–5
pension funds 163
pensioners’ free bus fares 66, 78
pensions 102, 197
Gurkha 325
Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia 323
‘perception gap’ 16
Pergau dam 373
Peston, Robert 313
Petraeus, General David 307, 371
Petworth Park, West Sussex 34, 119
Philip, HRH Prince, The Duke of Edinburgh 395
Phillips, Sir Hayden 139, 155
report 158
Phillipson, Clare 446
Phnom, The, Phnom Penh 204
Phnom Penh: Le Royal Hotel 203–7
Pickles, Eric 211
Pimco 409
Pinochet, Augusto 105
Pirex 417
Pitney, Gene 92
Pitt, William, the Younger 119
Plains Farm community centre, Sunderland 299–300, 441
Plawsworth, County Durham 29
PM programme 188
Poland, President of (Lech Kaczynski) 440
Police Bill 101
Police Federation 220, 224
Police HQ, Gillbridge Avenue, Sunderland 280
police pay 220, 221, 222
Policy Exchange 261–2
political class, crisis of confidence in 1
Political Studies Association 319
Poll Tax 79
Populus poll 181
Portcullis House, Westminster, London 57, 105, 112, 170, 175–6, 383, 409
Attlee Suite 213, 346
The Dispatch Box 177, 229
The Grimond Room 392, 419
Post Office see Royal Mail
postal services 66
postal voting rules 276–7
Pothier, Fabrice 14
poverty 20, 121
Powell, Jonathan 145