A View from the Foothills

Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for example - he has held several prominent posts. To the apoplexy of the whips, he was for a time the only person appointed to government who voted against the Iraq War. He also chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee and was a member of the Parliamentary Committee, giving him direct access to the court of Tony Blair. Irreverent, wry and candid, Mullin's keen sense of the ridiculous allows him to give a far clearer insight into the workings of Government than other, more overtly successful politicians. He offers humorous and incisive takes on all aspects of political life: from the build-up to Iraq, to the scandalous sums of tax-payers' money spent on ministerial cars he didn't want to use. His critically acclaimed diary will entertain and amuse far beyond the political classes.

ISBN 1846682304   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781846682308 (What's this?)   Pages 416 Publisher Profile Books Ltd   Published in London Imprint Profile Books Ltd   Previous ISBN 9781846682230 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 14 Jan 2010   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 941.0859092   Academic level General

"'The sharpest and most revealing political diaries since Alan Clark's.' Simon Hoggart, Guardian 'Chris Mullin's diaries deserve to become the central text for understanding the Blair years' Peter Riddell, The Times 'At the moment my favourite Labour MP is Chris Mullin, partly because I enormously enjoyed A View From The Foothills' William Hague, Independent 'The best first-hand account of the Blair years so far' Andy McSmith, Independent 'The most wickedly indiscreet and elegant political memoirs since Alan Clark' Mail on Sunday 'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris Mullin"

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