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Beyond A Fringe 2021 - Tales from a reformed Establishment lackey (Hardcover)
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Beyond A Fringe 2021 - Tales from a reformed Establishment lackey (Hardcover)
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Veering from the hilarious to the tragic, Andrew Mitchell's tales
from the parliamentary jungle make for one of the most entertaining
political memoirs in years. From his prep school years, straight
out of Evelyn Waugh, through the Army to Cambridge, the City of
London and the Palace of Westminster, Mitchell has passed through a
series of British institutions at a time of furious social and
political change - in the process becoming rather more cynical
about the British Establishment. Here, he reflects on the perils
and pleasures of loyalty, whether to a party, to individuals or to
one's own principles. He brilliantly lifts the lid on the dark arts
of the government Whips' Office ('Whipping, like stripping, is best
done in private') and reveals how he accidentally started Boris
Johnson's political career and later naively backed him to be Prime
Minister - an act which rebounded on him spectacularly. Mitchell
also writes candidly about the Plebgate fiasco, which led to four
police officers being sacked for gross misconduct and in one case
imprisoned, while Mitchell himself faced a bill of millions of
pounds in legal fees after losing his libel case. Engagingly honest
about his ups and downs in politics, Beyond a Fringe is crammed
with hilarious political anecdotes and irresistible insider gossip
from the heart of Westminster.
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