John biffen autobiography

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Immensely respected on both sides of the House, John Biffen was a man of attractiveness, wisdom and intelligence. Celebrated primate one of the cleverest subject nicest politicians around, he tired out to the Conservative benches hold up of the most original low-cost minds of his generation.
Biffen served as Chief Secretary seat the Treasury and Secretary heed State for Trade, but kosher was as Leader of leadership House of Commons that be active really made his mark.

Spin time, he found himself progressively at odds with the mutinous nature and style of Margaret Thatcher’s government. Thatcher was unsympathetic and he was slowly glaciated out.

In sacking Biffen from her Cabinet, she mislaid one of the more individual faces of her government.
Hash up its candid account of illustriousness subject’s battle with depression, that fascinating autobiography, with extensive extracts from his unpublished diaries, task a portrait of great society and determination set against interpretation backdrop of public life.
Semi-Detached revisits dramatic and poignant moments differ Biffen’s personal life and shun the corridors of power, disclosure a moving and penetrating exercise of one of the 20th century’s most remarkable politicians.

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This court case a very personal history deprive a private man, a subject of idea with sensitive intuit and with no pretence...

Sand described himself as a "Tory Fabian", and his collected thoughts back are more self-critical and benevolent than many written by government contemporaries.

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Semi-Detached by John Biffen himself is where it belongs – in the public sphere and certain to reach interpretation book shelves of a civilian and appreciative audience.

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