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List of British political memoirs

This is a list of British political memoirs:

Conservative edit

Image Name Notes Title Year Publisher
  David Amess Murdered in 2021 Ayes & Ears: A Survivor's Guide to Westminster 2020 Luath
  Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft Party Treasurer 1998-2001 Dirty Politics, Dirty Times 2005 Biteback
  Kenneth Baker Home Secretary 1990-2 The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics 1993 Faber & Faber
  Gavin Barwell Downing Street Chief of Staff 2017-9 How to Win a Marginal Seat: My Year Fighting For My Political Life 2016 Biteback
Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street 2021 Atlantic
  John Bercow Speaker of the Commons 2009-19 Unspeakable 2020 Orion
  John Biffen Leader of the Commons 1982-7 Semi-Detached 2013 Biteback
  Robert Boothby MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine East 1924-50 I Fight To Live: Autobiography 1947
  R. A. Butler First Secretary of State 1962-3 The Art of the Possible 1971
  David Cameron Prime Minister 2010-6 For the Record 2019 William Collins
  Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington Secretary-General of NATO 1984-8 Reflect on Things Past: The Memoirs of Lord Carrington 1988 Harper & Row
  Austen Chamberlain Foreign Secretary 1924-9
Joint Leader 1921-2
Down the Years 1935 Cassell
  Sydney Chapmen Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1992-5 Back to the Drawing Board: Memoirs of a Backbencher 2010 Absolute Design Solutions
  Alan Clark MP for Plymouth Sutton 1974-92 Alan Clark Diaries 1993-2002 Orion
  Ken Clarke Lord Chancellor 2010-2 Kind of Blue 2016 Pan Macmillan
  Winston Churchill Prime Minister 1940-5 and '5105 The Second World War 1948-53 Cassell
  Alec Douglas-Home Prime Minister 1963-4 The Way the Wind Blows: An Autobiography by Lord Home 1976 Fontana
  Alan Duncan MP for Rutland and Melton 1992-2019 In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister 2021 HarperCollins
  Anthony Eden Prime Minister 1955-7 The Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden: Full Circle 1960 Cassell
  Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler Party Chairman 1992-4 A Political Suicide: The Conservatives' Voyage into the Wilderness 2008 Politico's
  Mark Francois Chair of the European Research Group Spartan Victory: The Inside Story of the Battle for Brexit 2021 Independently
  Norman Tebbit Party Chairman 1985-7 Upwardly Mobile: An Autobiography 1988 Weidenfeld and Nicolson
  Peter Temple-Morris MP for Leominster 1974-2001 Across the Floor: A Life in Dissenting Politics 2015 I. B. Tauris
  Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister 1979-90 The Downing Street Years 1993 HarperCollins
The Path to Power 1995
  John Major Prime Minister 1990-7 John Major: The Autobiography 1999 HarperCollins
  Brian Mawhinney Party Chairman 1995-7 Just A Simple Belfast Boy 2013 Biteback
  Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet Leadership candidate in 1989 Stand Up and be Counted 1990 Random House
  John Boyd-Carpenter Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1962-4 Way of Life: The Memoirs of John Boyd-Carpenter 1980 Sidgwick & Jackson
  Sebastian Coe President of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008-12 Running My Life: The Autobiography 2013 Hodder & Stoughton
  Nick de Bois MP for Enfield North 2010-5 Confessions of a Recovering MP 2017 Biteback
  Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington Baroness-in-Waiting 1983-5 and 92-7 Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir 2015 Pan Macmillan
  Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton Father of the House of Commons 1945-51 Fifty Tumultuous Years 1955 Hutchinson
  Edward Heath Prime Minister 1970-4 The Course of My Life 1998 Bloomsbury
  Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone Lord Chancellor 1970-4 and 1979–87 The Door Wherein I Went 1975 Collins
A Sparrow's Flight: Memoirs 1990 Fontana
  Ann Widdecombe Minister of State for Prisons 1995-7 Strictly Ann: The Autobiography 2013 Orion
  David Waddington Governor of Bermuda 1992-7 Memoirs: Dispatches from Margaret Thatcher's last Home Secretary 2012 Biteback
  William Waldegrave Health Secretary 1990-2 A Different Kind of Weather: A Memoir 2015 Little, Brown Book Group
  Douglas Hurd Foreign Secretary 1989-95 Memoirs 2003 Abacus
  Bernard Ingham Downing Street Press Secretary 1979-90 Kill the Messenger 1991 HarperCollins
  Tom King Defence Secretary 1989-92 A King Among Ministers: Fifty Years in Parliament Recalled 2021 Unicorn
  Ian Lang Scotland Secretary 1990-5 Blue Remembered Years: A Political Memoir 2002 Politico's
  Nigel Lawson Chancellor of the Exchequer 1983-9 The View from No.11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical 1992 Bantam
  Andrea Leadsom Leader of the House of Commons 2017-9 Snakes and Ladders: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Politics 2022 Biteback
  Selwyn Lloyd Speaker of the House of Commons 1971-6 Mr Speaker, Sir 1976 Cape
Suez 1956: A Personal Account 1978
  Andrew Mitchell International Development Secretary 2010-2 Beyond A Fringe: Tales from a Reformed Establishment Lackey 2021 Biteback
  Emma Nicholson MEP for South East England 1999-2009 Secret Society: Inside - and Outside - the Conservative Party 1996
  Matthew Parris MP for West Derbyshire 1979-86 Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics 2002 Penguin
  Chris Patten Governor of Hong Kong 1992-7 First Confession: A Sort of Memoir 2017 Penguin
  Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale Secretary of State for Transport 1983-6 My Style of Government: The Thatcher Years 1991 Hutchinson
  Malcolm Rifkind Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee 2010-5 Power and Pragmatism: The Memoirs of Malcolm Rifkind 2016 Biteback
  Sasha Swire Wife of a Minister of State 2010-6 Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power 2020 Little, Brown Book Group
  Frank Taylor MP for Manchester Moss Side 1961-74 Called to Account 1993 Pentland
  Teddy Taylor Baby of the Commons 1964-5 Teddy Boy Blue 2008 Kennedy & Boyd
  George Walden MP for Buckingham 1983-97 Lucky George: Memoirs of an Anti-Politician 1999 Allen Lane
  Peter Walker Wales Secretary 1987-90 Staying Power: An Autobiography 1991 Bloomsbury
  Rhodes Boyson MP for Brent North 1974-97 Speaking My Mind 1994 Peter Owen
  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Governor-General of Canada 1935-40 Memory Hold-the-Door 1940 Hodder and Stoughton
  Duff Cooper Ambassador to France 1944-8 Old Men Forget 1953 Rupert Hart-Davis
  Julian Critchley MP for Aldershot 1970-97 The Palace of Varieties 1983 Faber & Faber
A Bag of Boiled Sweets 1994
  Edward du Cann Chairman of the 1922 Committee 1972-84 Two Lives: The Political and Business Careers of Edward du Cann 1995 Images
  Rory Stewart MP for Penrith & the Border 2010-19 Politics on the Edge 2023 Jonathan Cape
  George Gardiner MP for Reigate 1974-97 A Bastard's Tale: The Political Memoirs of George Gardiner 1999 Aurum
  Teresa Gorman MP for Billericay 1987-2001 No, Prime Minister! 2001 J. Blake
  Jerry Hayes MP for Harwood 1983-97 An Unexpected MP: Confessions of a Political Gossip 2014 Biteback
  Geoffrey Howe Deputy Prime Minister 1989-90 Conflict of Loyalty 1994 Macmillan
  Gerald Nabarro MP for Kidderminster 1950-64 NAB 1: Portrait of a Politician 1970 R. Maxwell
Exploits of a Politician 1973 Arthur Barker
  Richard Needham MP for North Wiltshire 1979-97 Honourable Member 1983 P. Stephens
One Man, Two Worlds: Memoir of a Businessman in Politics 2021 Blackstaff
  Nigel Nicolson MP for Bournemouth East & Christchurch 1952-9 Long Life: Memoirs 1997 Phoenix
  John Nott Defence Secretary 1981-3 Here Today Gone Tomorrow: Memoirs of an Errant Politician 2002 Politico's
  Elizabeth Peacock MP for Batley and Spen 1983-97 A Yorkshire Lass at the Court of Thatcher 2013 Pen & Sword
  James Spicer MP for West Dorset 1974-97 Jim's Journey 2014 Independently
  Michael Spicer Chairman of the 1922 Committee 2001-10 The Spicer Diaries 2012 St Martin's
  Edward Spears MP for Carlisle 1931-45 Assignment to Catastrophe 1954-5 A. A. Wyn
  Cecil Parkinson Party Chairman 1981-3 and '97-8 Right at the centre: An Autobiography 1992 Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Labour edit

Image Name Notes Title Year Publisher
  Ann Clwyd MP for Cynon Valley 1984-2019 Rebel With A Cause: A Political Life 2017
  Diane Abbott MP Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987 A Woman Like Me: A Memoir 2022 Penguin
  Clement Attlee Prime Minister 1945-51 As It Happened 1954 Viking
  Ed Balls Children, Schools and Families Secretary 2007-10 Speaking Out: Lessons in Life and Politics 2016 Random House
  Tony Blair Prime Minister 1997-2007 A Journey 2010 Random House
  Tony Benn Energy Secretary 1975-9 Dare to be a Daniel: Then and Now 2012 Random House
  David Blunkett Home Secretary 2001-4 The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit 2006 Bloomsbury
  Betty Boothroyd Speaker of the Commons 1992-2000 The Autobiography 2002 Penguin Random House
  George Brown, Baron George-Brown Foreign Secretary 1966-8 In My Way: Memoirs 1971 Gollancz
  Gordon Brown Prime Minister 2007-10 My Life, Our Times 2017 Random House
  W. J. Brown General Secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association 1921-42 So Far... 1943
  James Callaghan Prime Minister 1976-9 Time and Chance 1987 Collins
  Alastair Campbell General Secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association 1921-42 The Blair Years 2007 A. Knopf
  Michael Cashman MEP for West Midlands 1999-2014 One of Them: From Albert Square to Parliament Square 2021 Bloomsbury
  Barbara Castle First Secretary of State 1968-70 Fighting All The Way 1993 Macmillan
  Peter Hain Wales Secretary 2002-8 and 09-10 Outside In 2012 Biteback
  Harriet Harman Interim Leader 2010 and 2015 A Woman's Work 2017 Penguin
  Roy Hattersley Deputy Leader 1983-92 Who Goes Home?: Scenes from a Political Life 1995 Little, Brown Book Group
  Peter Mandelson Business Secretary 2008-10 The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour 2010 Harper
  Bob Marshall-Andrews MP for Medway 1997-2010 Off Message: The Complete Antidote to Political Humbug 2011 Profile
  Roy Mason Northern Ireland Secretary 1976-9 Paying the Price 1999 Robert Hale
  Greville Janner MP for Leicester West 1974-97 To Life!: The Memoirs of Greville Janner 2016 Sutton
  Alan Johnson MP for Hull West & Hessle 1997-2017 This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood 2013 Bantam
Please, Mister Postman 2014 Transworld
The Long and Winding Road 2016
In My Life: A Music Memoir 2018
  Carwyn Jones First Minister of Wales 2009-2018 Not Just Politics 2020 Headline
  Robert Kilroy-Silk MP for Ormskirk 1974-83 Hard Labour: The Political Diary of Robert Kilroy-Silk 1986 Chatto & Windus
  Oona King MP for Bethnal Green & Bow 1997-2005 House Music: The Oona King Diaries 2007 Bloomsbury
  Damian McBride Downing Street Press Secretary 2007-9 Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin 2013 Biteback
  Len McCluskey General Secretary of United Always Red 2021 OR
  Henry McLeish First Minister of Scotland 2000-1 Scotland First: Truth and Consequences 2004 Mainstream
  Ian Mikardo MP for Bow & Poplar 1983-7 Back-Bencher 1988 Weidenfeld and Nicolson
  Ernest Millington MP for Chelmsford 1945-50 Was That Really Me? 2006 Fultus
  Austin Mitchell MP for Great Grimsby 1977-2015 Austin Mitchell's Yorkshire Jokes 2001 Great Northern
Austin Mitchell's Yorkshire Sayings 2004
Calendar Boy 2014 Pen & Sword
Revenge of the Rich: The Neoliberal Revolution in Britain and New Zealand 2017 Canterbury University
Confessions of a Political Maverick 2018 Biteback
  Rhodri Morgan First Minister of Wales 2000-9 Rhodri: A Political Life in Wales and Westminster 2017 University of Wales
  Herbert Morrison Interim Leader 1955 An Autobiography 1960 Odhams
  Mo Mowlam Northern Ireland Secretary 1997-9 Momentum: The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People 2002 Hodder & Stoughton
  Maureen Colquhoun MP for Northampton North 1974-9 A Woman in the House 1980 Scan
  Robin Cook Foreign Secretary 1997-2001 Point of Departure 2003 Simon & Schuster
  Hugh Dalton Chancellor of the Exchequer 1945-7 High Tide and After: Memoirs 1945-1960 1953 Muller
  Tam Dalyell Father of the Commons 2001-5 The Importance of Being Awkward: The Autobiography of Tam Dalyell 2011 Birlinn
  Alistair Darling Chancellor of the Exchequer 2007-10 Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11 2011 Atlantic
  Paul Flynn MP for Newport West 1987-2019 The Usual Suspect 2010 Biteback
  George Galloway MP for Glasgow Hillhead 1987-2005 I'm Not the Only One 2004 Penguin
  Parmjit Dhanda MP for Gloucester 2001-10 My Political Race: An Outsider's Journey to the Heart of British Politics 2015 Biteback
  Tom Driberg Party Chairman 1957-8 Ruling Passions: The Autobiography by Tom Driberg 1977 Stein and Day
  Maria Fyfe MP for Glasgow Maryhill 1987-2001 A Problem Like Maria: A Woman's Eye View of Life as an MP 2014 Luath
  Bryan Gould Chair of the Fabian Society 1988-9 Goodbye to All That 1995 Macmillan
  Denis Healey Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-9 The Time of my Life 1994 Random House
  Eric Heffer MP for Liverpool Walton 1964-91 Never a Yes Man: The Life and Politics of an Adopted Liverpudlian 1991 Verso
  Geoff Hoon Defence Secretary 1999-2005 See How They Run 2021 Unicorn
  Denis Howell Minister for Sport 1974-9 Made in Birmingham: The Memoirs of Denis Howell 1990 Queen Anne
  Ken Livingstone Mayor of London 2000-8 You Can't Say That 2011 Faber & Faber
  Stan Newens MEP for Central London 1984-99 In Quest of a Fairer Society: My Life and Politics 2011 Memoir Club
  Fiona Onasanya MP for Peterborough 2017-9 Snakes and Adders: A Set Up for the Step Up 2020 Independently
  Tom Pendry MP for Stalybridge and Hyde 1970-2001 Taking It On The Chin: Memoirs of a Parliamentary Bruiser 2016 Biteback
  Jess Phillips MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015 Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP 2016 Simon & Schuster
  Edith Picton-Turbervill MP for The Wrekin 1929-31 Life is Good: An Autobiography 1939 F. Muller
  John Prescott Deputy Prime Minister 1997-2007 Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches 2008 Headline Review
  Nick Raynsford MP for Greenwich and Woolwich 1997-2015 Substance Not Spin: An Insider's View of Success and Failure in Government 2016 Policy
  Geoffrey Robinson MP for Coventry North West 1976-2019 The Unconventional Minister: My Life Inside New Labour 2000 Michael Joseph
  Joan Ruddock MP for Lewisham Deptford 1987-2015 Going Nowhere: A Memoir 2016 Biteback
  Hartley Shawcross Attorney General for England and Wales 1945-51 Life Sentence: The Memoirs of Lord Shawcross 1995 Constable
  Wes Streeting MP for Ilford North since 2015 One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On 2023 Hodder & Stoughton
  George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy Speaker of the Commons 1976-83 Mr. Speaker: The Memoirs of Viscount Tonypandy 1985 Century
  Jack Straw Lord Chancellor 2007-10 Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor 2012 Pan Macmillan
  George Wigg, Baron Wigg MP for Dudley 1945-67 George Wigg 1972 Joseph
  Harold Wilson Prime Minister 1964-70 and '74-6 Memoirs: The Making of a Prime Minister 1916–1964 1986 Weidenfeld and Nicolson
  Jack Ashley MP for Stoke-on-Trent South 1966-92 Acts of Defiance 1994 Reinhardt
  Jeremy Bray MP for Motherwell South 1983-97 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Science,Politics and Trust: A Parliamentary Life 1994 Elizabeth Bray
  Jeremy Bray MP for Motherwell South 1983-97 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Science,Politics and Trust: A Parliamentary Life 1994 Elizabeth Bray
  Fenner Brockway General Secretary of the Independent Labour Party 1933-9 Inside the Left: Thirty Years of Platform, Press, Prison and Parliament 1942 G. Allen & Unwin
Towards Tomorrow 1977 Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
98 Not Out 1986 Quartet

Liberal edit

Includes Liberals, Liberal Democrats and Social Democrats.

Image Name Notes Title Year Publisher
  Paddy Ashdown Leader 1988-99 A Fortunate Life: The Autobiography of Paddy Ashdown 2010 Aurum
  Norman Baker MP for Lewes 1997-2015
Minister of State for Crime Prevention 2013-14
Against the Grain 2015 Biteback
  Vince Cable Deputy Leader 2006-10
MP for Twickenham 1997-2015
Free Radical: A Memoir 2010 Atlantic
  Menzies Campbell Leader 2006-7 My Autobiography 2008 Hodder & Stoughton
  Nick Clegg Leader 2007–15, Deputy Prime Minister 2010-15 Politics: Between the Extremes 2016 Random House
  Tim Farron Leader 2015-17 A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal 2019 SPCK
  Jeremy Thorpe Leader 1967-76 In My Own Time 1999 Biteback
  Shirley Williams Leader in the House of Lords 2001-4 Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography of Shirley Williams 2009 Little, Brown Book Group
  Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard Chief Executive 2003-9 Winning Here: My Campaigning Life 2018 Biteback
  David Steel Leader 1976-88
Liberal Leader 1976-88
Against Goliath: David Steel's Story 1989 Weidenfeld and Nicolson
  Jo Grimond Leader 1956-67 Memoirs 1979 Holmes & Meier
  David Lloyd George Prime Minister 1916-22
Leader 1926-31
War Memoirs of David Lloyd George 1933-7 Ivor Nicholson & Watson
  Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank Leader in the House of Lords 1997-2001 Fourth Among Equals 2000 Politico's
  Cyril Smith Chief Whip in the House of Commons 1976-7 Big Cyril: The Autobiography 1977 W. H. Allen
  Mark Oaten Chair 2001-3 Screwing Up: How One MP Survived Politics, Scandal and Turning Forty 2009 Biteback
  Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne MP for Lincoln 1962-74 Against the Tide: Politics and Beyond - A Memoir 2014 Biteback
  Roy Jenkins SDP Leader 1982-3
Leader in the Lords 1988-97
A Life at the Centre 1991 Macmillan
  David Laws MP for Yeovil 2001-15 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition 2010 Biteback
Coalition: The Inside Story of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government 2016
Coalition Diaries, 2012–2015 2017

Others edit

Crossbenchers edit

UKIP edit

  • Guinea a Minute by Godfrey Bloom (2013)
  • Nigel Farage (Biteback)
    • Fighting Bull (2010)
    • Flying Free (2011)
    • The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything (2015)

SNP edit

  • Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing by Winnie Ewing (2004)
  • The Dream Shall Never Die: 100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever by Alex Salmond (HarperCollins, 2015)
  • A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars (2021)

Plaid Cymru edit

  • For the Sake of Wales: The Memoirs of Gwynfor Evans by Gwynfor Evans (1996)

Minor Parties edit

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This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items May 2021 This is a list of British political memoirs Contents 1 Conservative 2 Labour 3 Liberal 4 Others 4 1 Crossbenchers 4 2 UKIP 4 3 SNP 4 4 Plaid Cymru 4 5 Minor PartiesConservative editImage Name Notes Title Year Publisher nbsp David Amess Murdered in 2021 Ayes amp Ears A Survivor s Guide to Westminster 2020 Luath nbsp Michael Ashcroft Baron Ashcroft Party Treasurer 1998 2001 Dirty Politics Dirty Times 2005 Biteback nbsp Kenneth Baker Home Secretary 1990 2 The Turbulent Years My Life in Politics 1993 Faber amp Faber nbsp Gavin Barwell Downing Street Chief of Staff 2017 9 How to Win a Marginal Seat My Year Fighting For My Political Life 2016 Biteback Chief of Staff Notes from Downing Street 2021 Atlantic nbsp John Bercow Speaker of the Commons 2009 19 Unspeakable 2020 Orion nbsp John Biffen Leader of the Commons 1982 7 Semi Detached 2013 Biteback nbsp Robert Boothby MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine East 1924 50 I Fight To Live Autobiography 1947 nbsp R A Butler First Secretary of State 1962 3 The Art of the Possible 1971 nbsp David Cameron Prime Minister 2010 6 For the Record 2019 William Collins nbsp Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington Secretary General of NATO 1984 8 Reflect on Things Past The Memoirs of Lord Carrington 1988 Harper amp Row nbsp Austen Chamberlain Foreign Secretary 1924 9Joint Leader 1921 2 Down the Years 1935 Cassell nbsp Sydney Chapmen Vice Chamberlain of the Household 1992 5 Back to the Drawing Board Memoirs of a Backbencher 2010 Absolute Design Solutions nbsp Alan Clark MP for Plymouth Sutton 1974 92 Alan Clark Diaries 1993 2002 Orion nbsp Ken Clarke Lord Chancellor 2010 2 Kind of Blue 2016 Pan Macmillan nbsp Winston Churchill Prime Minister 1940 5 and 5105 The Second World War 1948 53 Cassell nbsp Alec Douglas Home Prime Minister 1963 4 The Way the Wind Blows An Autobiography by Lord Home 1976 Fontana nbsp Alan Duncan MP for Rutland and Melton 1992 2019 In the Thick of It The Private Diaries of a Minister 2021 HarperCollins nbsp Anthony Eden Prime Minister 1955 7 The Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden Full Circle 1960 Cassell nbsp Norman Fowler Baron Fowler Party Chairman 1992 4 A Political Suicide The Conservatives Voyage into the Wilderness 2008 Politico s nbsp Mark Francois Chair of the European Research Group Spartan Victory The Inside Story of the Battle for Brexit 2021 Independently nbsp Norman Tebbit Party Chairman 1985 7 Upwardly Mobile An Autobiography 1988 Weidenfeld and Nicolson nbsp Peter Temple Morris MP for Leominster 1974 2001 Across the Floor A Life in Dissenting Politics 2015 I B Tauris nbsp Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister 1979 90 The Downing Street Years 1993 HarperCollins The Path to Power 1995 nbsp John Major Prime Minister 1990 7 John Major The Autobiography 1999 HarperCollins nbsp Brian Mawhinney Party Chairman 1995 7 Just A Simple Belfast Boy 2013 Biteback nbsp Sir Anthony Meyer 3rd Baronet Leadership candidate in 1989 Stand Up and be Counted 1990 Random House nbsp John Boyd Carpenter Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1962 4 Way of Life The Memoirs of John Boyd Carpenter 1980 Sidgwick amp Jackson nbsp Sebastian Coe President of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008 12 Running My Life The Autobiography 2013 Hodder amp Stoughton nbsp Nick de Bois MP for Enfield North 2010 5 Confessions of a Recovering MP 2017 Biteback nbsp Jean Barker Baroness Trumpington Baroness in Waiting 1983 5 and 92 7 Coming Up Trumps A Memoir 2015 Pan Macmillan nbsp Edward Turnour 6th Earl Winterton Father of the House of Commons 1945 51 Fifty Tumultuous Years 1955 Hutchinson nbsp Edward Heath Prime Minister 1970 4 The Course of My Life 1998 Bloomsbury nbsp Quintin Hogg Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone Lord Chancellor 1970 4 and 1979 87 The Door Wherein I Went 1975 Collins A Sparrow s Flight Memoirs 1990 Fontana nbsp Ann Widdecombe Minister of State for Prisons 1995 7 Strictly Ann The Autobiography 2013 Orion nbsp David Waddington Governor of Bermuda 1992 7 Memoirs Dispatches from Margaret Thatcher s last Home Secretary 2012 Biteback nbsp William Waldegrave Health Secretary 1990 2 A Different Kind of Weather A Memoir 2015 Little Brown Book Group nbsp Douglas Hurd Foreign Secretary 1989 95 Memoirs 2003 Abacus nbsp Bernard Ingham Downing Street Press Secretary 1979 90 Kill the Messenger 1991 HarperCollins nbsp Tom King Defence Secretary 1989 92 A King Among Ministers Fifty Years in Parliament Recalled 2021 Unicorn nbsp Ian Lang Scotland Secretary 1990 5 Blue Remembered Years A Political Memoir 2002 Politico s nbsp Nigel Lawson Chancellor of the Exchequer 1983 9 The View from No 11 Memoirs of a Tory Radical 1992 Bantam nbsp Andrea Leadsom Leader of the House of Commons 2017 9 Snakes and Ladders Navigating the Ups and Downs of Politics 2022 Biteback nbsp Selwyn Lloyd Speaker of the House of Commons 1971 6 Mr Speaker Sir 1976 Cape Suez 1956 A Personal Account 1978 nbsp Andrew Mitchell International Development Secretary 2010 2 Beyond A Fringe Tales from a Reformed Establishment Lackey 2021 Biteback nbsp Emma Nicholson MEP for South East England 1999 2009 Secret Society Inside and Outside the Conservative Party 1996 nbsp Matthew Parris MP for West Derbyshire 1979 86 Chance Witness An Outsider s Life in Politics 2002 Penguin nbsp Chris Patten Governor of Hong Kong 1992 7 First Confession A Sort of Memoir 2017 Penguin nbsp Nicholas Ridley Baron Ridley of Liddesdale Secretary of State for Transport 1983 6 My Style of Government The Thatcher Years 1991 Hutchinson nbsp Malcolm Rifkind Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee 2010 5 Power and Pragmatism The Memoirs of Malcolm Rifkind 2016 Biteback nbsp Sasha Swire Wife of a Minister of State 2010 6 Diary of an MP s Wife Inside and Outside Power 2020 Little Brown Book Group nbsp Frank Taylor MP for Manchester Moss Side 1961 74 Called to Account 1993 Pentland nbsp Teddy Taylor Baby of the Commons 1964 5 Teddy Boy Blue 2008 Kennedy amp Boyd nbsp George Walden MP for Buckingham 1983 97 Lucky George Memoirs of an Anti Politician 1999 Allen Lane nbsp Peter Walker Wales Secretary 1987 90 Staying Power An Autobiography 1991 Bloomsbury nbsp Rhodes Boyson MP for Brent North 1974 97 Speaking My Mind 1994 Peter Owen nbsp John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Governor General of Canada 1935 40 Memory Hold the Door 1940 Hodder and Stoughton nbsp Duff Cooper Ambassador to France 1944 8 Old Men Forget 1953 Rupert Hart Davis nbsp Julian Critchley MP for Aldershot 1970 97 The Palace of Varieties 1983 Faber amp Faber A Bag of Boiled Sweets 1994 nbsp Edward du Cann Chairman of the 1922 Committee 1972 84 Two Lives The Political and Business Careers of Edward du Cann 1995 Images nbsp Rory Stewart MP for Penrith amp the Border 2010 19 Politics on the Edge 2023 Jonathan Cape nbsp George Gardiner MP for Reigate 1974 97 A Bastard s Tale The Political Memoirs of George Gardiner 1999 Aurum nbsp Teresa Gorman MP for Billericay 1987 2001 No Prime Minister 2001 J Blake nbsp Jerry Hayes MP for Harwood 1983 97 An Unexpected MP Confessions of a Political Gossip 2014 Biteback nbsp Geoffrey Howe Deputy Prime Minister 1989 90 Conflict of Loyalty 1994 Macmillan nbsp Gerald Nabarro MP for Kidderminster 1950 64 NAB 1 Portrait of a Politician 1970 R Maxwell Exploits of a Politician 1973 Arthur Barker nbsp Richard Needham MP for North Wiltshire 1979 97 Honourable Member 1983 P Stephens One Man Two Worlds Memoir of a Businessman in Politics 2021 Blackstaff nbsp Nigel Nicolson MP for Bournemouth East amp Christchurch 1952 9 Long Life Memoirs 1997 Phoenix nbsp John Nott Defence Secretary 1981 3 Here Today Gone Tomorrow Memoirs of an Errant Politician 2002 Politico s nbsp Elizabeth Peacock MP for Batley and Spen 1983 97 A Yorkshire Lass at the Court of Thatcher 2013 Pen amp Sword nbsp James Spicer MP for West Dorset 1974 97 Jim s Journey 2014 Independently nbsp Michael Spicer Chairman of the 1922 Committee 2001 10 The Spicer Diaries 2012 St Martin s nbsp Edward Spears MP for Carlisle 1931 45 Assignment to Catastrophe 1954 5 A A Wyn nbsp Cecil Parkinson Party Chairman 1981 3 and 97 8 Right at the centre An Autobiography 1992 Weidenfeld and NicolsonLabour editImage Name Notes Title Year Publisher nbsp Ann Clwyd MP for Cynon Valley 1984 2019 Rebel With A Cause A Political Life 2017 nbsp Diane Abbott MP Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987 A Woman Like Me A Memoir 2022 Penguin nbsp Clement Attlee Prime Minister 1945 51 As It Happened 1954 Viking nbsp Ed Balls Children Schools and Families Secretary 2007 10 Speaking Out Lessons in Life and Politics 2016 Random House nbsp Tony Blair Prime Minister 1997 2007 A Journey 2010 Random House nbsp Tony Benn Energy Secretary 1975 9 Dare to be a Daniel Then and Now 2012 Random House nbsp David Blunkett Home Secretary 2001 4 The Blunkett Tapes My Life in the Bear Pit 2006 Bloomsbury nbsp Betty Boothroyd Speaker of the Commons 1992 2000 The Autobiography 2002 Penguin Random House nbsp George Brown Baron George Brown Foreign Secretary 1966 8 In My Way Memoirs 1971 Gollancz nbsp Gordon Brown Prime Minister 2007 10 My Life Our Times 2017 Random House nbsp W J Brown General Secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association 1921 42 So Far 1943 nbsp James Callaghan Prime Minister 1976 9 Time and Chance 1987 Collins nbsp Alastair Campbell General Secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association 1921 42 The Blair Years 2007 A Knopf nbsp Michael Cashman MEP for West Midlands 1999 2014 One of Them From Albert Square to Parliament Square 2021 Bloomsbury nbsp Barbara Castle First Secretary of State 1968 70 Fighting All The Way 1993 Macmillan nbsp Peter Hain Wales Secretary 2002 8 and 09 10 Outside In 2012 Biteback nbsp Harriet Harman Interim Leader 2010 and 2015 A Woman s Work 2017 Penguin nbsp Roy Hattersley Deputy Leader 1983 92 Who Goes Home Scenes from a Political Life 1995 Little Brown Book Group nbsp Peter Mandelson Business Secretary 2008 10 The Third Man Life at the Heart of New Labour 2010 Harper nbsp Bob Marshall Andrews MP for Medway 1997 2010 Off Message The Complete Antidote to Political Humbug 2011 Profile nbsp Roy Mason Northern Ireland Secretary 1976 9 Paying the Price 1999 Robert Hale nbsp Greville Janner MP for Leicester West 1974 97 To Life The Memoirs of Greville Janner 2016 Sutton nbsp Alan Johnson MP for Hull West amp Hessle 1997 2017 This Boy A Memoir of a Childhood 2013 Bantam Please Mister Postman 2014 Transworld The Long and Winding Road 2016 In My Life A Music Memoir 2018 nbsp Carwyn Jones First Minister of Wales 2009 2018 Not Just Politics 2020 Headline nbsp Robert Kilroy Silk MP for Ormskirk 1974 83 Hard Labour The Political Diary of Robert Kilroy Silk 1986 Chatto amp Windus nbsp Oona King MP for Bethnal Green amp Bow 1997 2005 House Music The Oona King Diaries 2007 Bloomsbury nbsp Damian McBride Downing Street Press Secretary 2007 9 Power Trip A Decade of Policy Plots and Spin 2013 Biteback nbsp Len McCluskey General Secretary of United Always Red 2021 OR nbsp Henry McLeish First Minister of Scotland 2000 1 Scotland First Truth and Consequences 2004 Mainstream nbsp Ian Mikardo MP for Bow amp Poplar 1983 7 Back Bencher 1988 Weidenfeld and Nicolson nbsp Ernest Millington MP for Chelmsford 1945 50 Was That Really Me 2006 Fultus nbsp Austin Mitchell MP for Great Grimsby 1977 2015 Austin Mitchell s Yorkshire Jokes 2001 Great Northern Austin Mitchell s Yorkshire Sayings 2004 Calendar Boy 2014 Pen amp Sword Revenge of the Rich The Neoliberal Revolution in Britain and New Zealand 2017 Canterbury University Confessions of a Political Maverick 2018 Biteback nbsp Rhodri Morgan First Minister of Wales 2000 9 Rhodri A Political Life in Wales and Westminster 2017 University of Wales nbsp Herbert Morrison Interim Leader 1955 An Autobiography 1960 Odhams nbsp Mo Mowlam Northern Ireland Secretary 1997 9 Momentum The Struggle for Peace Politics and the People 2002 Hodder amp Stoughton nbsp Maureen Colquhoun MP for Northampton North 1974 9 A Woman in the House 1980 Scan nbsp Robin Cook Foreign Secretary 1997 2001 Point of Departure 2003 Simon amp Schuster nbsp Hugh Dalton Chancellor of the Exchequer 1945 7 High Tide and After Memoirs 1945 1960 1953 Muller nbsp Tam Dalyell Father of the Commons 2001 5 The Importance of Being Awkward The Autobiography of Tam Dalyell 2011 Birlinn nbsp Alistair Darling Chancellor of the Exchequer 2007 10 Back from the Brink 1 000 Days at Number 11 2011 Atlantic nbsp Paul Flynn MP for Newport West 1987 2019 The Usual Suspect 2010 Biteback nbsp George Galloway MP for Glasgow Hillhead 1987 2005 I m Not the Only One 2004 Penguin nbsp Parmjit Dhanda MP for Gloucester 2001 10 My Political Race An Outsider s Journey to the Heart of British Politics 2015 Biteback nbsp Tom Driberg Party Chairman 1957 8 Ruling Passions The Autobiography by Tom Driberg 1977 Stein and Day nbsp Maria Fyfe MP for Glasgow Maryhill 1987 2001 A Problem Like Maria A Woman s 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