Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

 

Early Days

Away at School

Happy Times at Oxford

Life in the Army

Starting at the Bar

Marriage and Nelson & Colne

Becoming an MP

Heath’s Government: Defeat

Out of Parliament and Then Back

On the Ministerial Ladder

Entering the Home Office

More Home Office Tribulations

Chief Whip

Home Secretary

Trouble at Strangeways and Elsewhere

Leader of the Lords

Bermuda

Testing Times

A Royal Visit

Trouble on the Island

The Referendum

Going Home

Home and Back to the Lords

Bowing Out

 

Index

Plates

Copyright