Publisher's Synopsis
Robin Butler, Lord Butler of Brockwell, joined the civil service in 1961, retiring as Cabinet Secretary 36 years later. During his remarkable career, he served as Private Secretary to Edward Heath, Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher and as Cabinet Secretary under Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair. He was also head of the Home Civil Service between 1987 and 1997, and is, perhaps, best known to the general public as the chairman of the 2004 inquiry into Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. In this illuminating political biography Michael Jago cleverly weaves a narrative around Robin Butler's remarkable career as a civil servant, measured against the changing background of British politics over the past 40 years.
