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Winner of the Parliamentary Book Awards 2021 Best Biography Memoir or Autobiography
Veering from the hilarious to the tragic Andrew Mitchells 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 ones 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 Johnsons political career and later naively backed him to be Prime Minister an act which rebounded on him spectacularly
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