by Chris Mullin
‘Sus’ laws 181
Swain, Jon 204
swine flu 323, 358, 359–60, 393
Sword of State 395
Syria 18, 183, 387
Szabo, Violette 297
T
Taj hotel, Bombay (Mumbai) 289
Taliban 107, 178, 182, 355, 392
Tan Son Nhut airport, Ho Chi Minh City 360, 362
tanker drivers’ strike (2008) 252
Tanner, Colonel J.K. 396
Tapsell, Sir Peter 289
Tavistock Square bus bombing, London 22
tax credits 89
tax cuts 437
tax havens 436
tax threshold 435, 443
Tay Ninh province, Vietnam 367
Taylor, Charles 105
Taylor, Dari 55, 375, 434
Taylor, Lord, of Blackburn 304
Taylor, Matthew 403
Tebbit, Norman 67, 151, 211
Teeside steel industry 383
Temple, Tracey 104, 156
terrorism 180–81, 276, 289
Terrorism Bill 44, 45, 47, 48–9, 59
Thao (wife of cousin Duy in Vietnam) 367
Thatcher, Denis 402
Thatcher, Margaret 101, 144, 151, 160, 212, 247, 307, 357, 374, 379, 389, 402, 437
Thomas, Gareth 6, 175
Thompson Park, Southwick 261
Thorney Close, Sunderland 227
Thornton, Dave 372–3
Thornton le Street, North Yorkshire 37
Till valley 7
Times, The 95, 127, 140, 151, 247, 279, 283, 284, 292, 308, 316, 322, 344, 370, 374, 378, 410, 421, 424, 438
polls 372
Timms, Stephen 317
Today programme (Radio 4) 85, 93, 155, 165, 215, 244, 245, 259
Todd, Helen 141, 405
Todd, Malcolm 141, 405
Tonle Sap, Cambodia 205
Touhig, Don 255, 277
Toul Sleng death camp, Cambodia 205
Townsend, Peter 396
Toynbee, Polly 369
Toyota 293
trade unions 139, 155, 158, 171, 218, 224, 239, 248, 264, 326, 353
Trafalgar Square, London 21, 22
Treasury 59, 130, 163, 192, 220, 225, 238, 256, 276, 299, 310, 317, 340, 352, 408
Treasury Committee 384
Treasury questions 61
Tree, Ronnie 385
Tribune 246
Trident 21, 38, 137, 138, 145, 155, 157–8, 303, 307, 325, 443
Triesman, Lord (Dave)
succeeds CM 4, 36
and Africa 10
personality 14
friendship with Straw 14
and ministerial delegation from South Africa 105
replaced by Malloch-Brown 187
eased out as General Secretary 216
TUC (Trades Union Congress) 372
Turnbull, Andrew 159, 160
Turner, Ruth 145
Tuttle, Ambassador 285
Tutu, Archbishop Desmond 73
Tyrie, Andrew 60, 90, 94, 146, 312
U
Uganda 44, 81–3
UK Border Agency 311, 322
UK Visas 77
UKIP 340
Ukraine 263, 291
Ulster Unionists 250
unemployment 2, 132, 313, 321, 357
UNESCO 365
Unison 31–2, 252
Unite 433–4
United Agents 276
United Nations (UN) 73, 235, 373, 374
founded 76
and Iraq 19
General Secretary 69, 76
General Assembly 69
in Uganda 82
Security Council 145
and the Congo 221
and Israeli attacks on Gaza 295
drugs summit (Vienna, 2009) 309
Guardian’s climate change claims 403
United States
aid terms (1940s) 66
9/11 attacks 23, 36, 198
‘secret gulag’ 10, 18
and Africa 10, 269
use of napalm in Falluja 54
addiction to oil 76
in Afghanistan 107
Rumsfeld resigns 134
Republicans lose control 134
sanctions against Cuba 249
and bombing of a wedding party in Afghanistan 255
Obama elected president 282
prisons 292
University of Birmingham 173
University of Hull 423–4
University of Newcastle 445
Upsidedown Cottage, Robin Hood’s Bay, North Yorkshire 263–4
US Congress 375
US Drug Enforcement Agency 14
US House of Representatives 134
US Senate 134
US Supreme Court 292
Ussher, Kitty 53, 79, 347
V
Vadera, Shriti 225, 285–6
Valley Road breakfast club, Sunderland 217, 219, 245
‘vanity publishing’ 132–3
VAT 337, 401, 406, 437, 441
Vaux brewery 417
Vauxhall 293
Vaz, Keith 292
Vendrell, Francis 138
Vereker, Sir John 373
Very British Coup, A (film) 280
Victoria, Queen 114
Victoria Tower, Palace of Westminster, London 146, 394
Victoria Tower Gardens, London 37, 221, 306, 392
Viet Cong 367
Vietnam 193–5, 206, 207–9, 281, 359–67, 392, 399, 413, 432
Viggers, Peter 204, 207, 208
Vung Tao, Vietnam 362
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Wade, Rebekah 320
Wakefield, Sir Humphry 7
Wakefield, Katherine 7
Walsingham, Norfolk 260
war on terrorism 36
Ward, Judith 53
Wareing, Bob 176
Warren Street tube station bomb, London 28
Washington DC 236, 274, 275, 280, 330
Washington Post 263
Washington, Tyne and Wear 358
Watson, Tom 123, 125, 282–3, 337, 341
Watt, Peter 215, 216, 410–11
Watts, Dave 112
weapons of mass destruction (WMD) 42, 400
Wearside Jack 129
Weatherstone, Peggy 351
Week in Westminster (BBC Radio Four programme) 326–7
Welfare Reform Act (1992) 292
Wells, H.G. 26
West, Admiral Lord 212, 214
West Bank 306
West Dean Gardens, Chichester, West Sussex 121
Westland affair (1986) 97
Westley, Colonel Richard 213, 215
Westminster Cathedral 139
Westminster Hall 256, 434
Wheeler, Stuart 307
Wheeler, Tessa 307
Whelan, Charlie 434
White, Michael 175
White House, Washington 36, 146, 374
Whitelaw, Willie 434
White’s, St James’s, London 346, 434
Wicks, Malcolm 79, 337
Widdecombe, Ann 225, 333, 345, 346
Wilberforce, William 190
Wildfowl Park, Washington 404
Williams, Alan 186
Williams, John 134, 214, 263, 406
Williams, Michael 76
Williams, Sheila 25, 26, 134, 214, 406
Williams, Shirley 59, 372, 386, 407
Wills, Michael 6
Wilmshurst, Elizabeth 415
Wilson, Brian 9
Wilson, Harold 234, 432
Wilson, Mary 93
Wilton Park, Sussex: conference on Africa 8
Wimbledon 345
Windsor Castle 56
Wingfield House, Regent’s Park, London 285
Winnick, David 45, 48, 50, 89, 226
Winstone, Ruth 139, 249
Winterson, Jeanette 293
Winterton, Nicholas 185, 192, 436
Wintour, Patrick 259
Wishart, Ruth 432
Wizard of Oz 359
W
ogan, Terry 415
Wolfgang, Walter 39
Wolfowitz, Paul 36
women
equal pay for 155
all-women shortlists 256–7, 294, 299
Women’s Centre, Green Terrace, Sunderland 56
Wood, Sir Michael 415
Woods, Tiger 402
Woodward, Shaun 112
Woolas, Phil 311, 324
Woollacott, Martin 75, 242
Woollacott, Mori 75, 242
Woolwich pub bombing (1974) 53
Woolworth’s 285, 293
Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire 387
Worcester College, Oxford 296
World at One, The (BBC Radio 4 programme) 116
World Cup (football) (2006) 110
World This Weekend, The (BBC Radio 4 programme) 98, 122
Wortley, Pam and Roger 404
Wright, Tony 124, 202, 272, 349, 371, 387, 392, 414, 429
Wright Committee reforms 425
Writtle Road cemetery, Chelmsford, Essex 135, 137
WRVS 137
Wyatt, Derek 199
Y
Yar’ Adua, President-Elect 168–9, 170
Yelland, David 428
Yesterday in Parliament (BBC Radio Four programme) 437
YouGov polls 146, 443
Young, Chris 217, 245
Young, Sir George 22, 74, 192, 193, 291, 331, 333, 334, 343–4, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 386, 387–8, 421, 425, 436
YouTube 321
Yushchenko, President 263
Z
Zadari, President 399
ZANU PF 105
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab 51
Zellick, Graham 275
Zenawi, Meles 13, 14, 53
Zimbabwe
asylum seekers deported to 18
impasse in 105
debate on 192
Zuma, Jacob 248
Zuma, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini 105
1. Late friends: Michael Foot – in the words of David Cameron, ‘the last link with an heroic age of politics’. © Andrew Wiard
2. Tony Banks – who said of his re-incarnation in the House of Lords, ‘Wonderful. I’ve gone from being a boring old fart to a young Turk in a single leap.’
3. Rupert Hanson, the man who brought music back to Sunderland, ‘close to the top of my little pantheon of local heroes’ – see entries for 17 June and 17 July, 2009.
4 & 5. Out and about in the North: unveiling a plaque on the home of Joan Maynard, MP for Sheffield Brightside 1974–87; (above); with Sunderland lifeboat men (below).
6. A visit from prime minister Gordon Brown with CM and former Sunderland mayor, 99-year-old Elizabeth Porter.
7. CM and Nicholas Soames in the Prince of Wales’ garden at Highgrove, June 2006.
8. A visit from the Dalai Lama, 21 May 2008. ‘The journey between engagements was like a triumphal procession. People lined the corridors and came running from all over.’
9. CM on his annual walk on the Cleveland Way.
10. ‘My Dad’ by Sarah Mullin.
11. Nick Clegg on the campaign trail: ‘fluent, utterly self-confident and easily the biggest charlatan of the lot’.
12. Valedictory speech (p. 450): ‘Only a handful of those who currently strut these corridors will be remembered in ten or twenty years’ time and I do not expect to be among them.’
13 & 14. The last day, 8 April, 2010: saying goodbye to staff in the Members’ Tea Room (above); Emma, Sarah and CM with Mr Speaker Bercow (below).
15. Goodbye to all that: a standing ovation as Tony Blair leaves the chamber for the last time, 7 June, 2007.
16. Gordon and Sarah Brown and family leave Downing Street: ‘Sadly, the little lads are unlikely ever to remember the famous place that was once their home’ 11 May, 2010.
* It turned out to have been drafted by Neal Lawson of Compass, an obscure think tank; there was no evidence that any MP had anything to do with it.
* Fictional Prime Minister in my first novel, A Very British Coup.
* During the 2005 election campaign Cherie Blair was attended upon by a hairdresser for whose services she billed the Labour Party £7,500.
* One of the great war correspondents. See his memoirs, At the Barricades, Quartet, 1980.
* The codename given to Peter Mandelson during the 1994 leadership election to enable his involvement in the Blair campaign to be denied.
* Former Secretary of State for Wales and Attorney General, now in the Lords.
* A View from the Foothills, pp. 261 and 286.
* See A View from the Foothills, p. 181.
* See A View from the Foothills, p. 314.