Andrew Gimson

No time for bogus pieties

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  • Confessions of a Eurosceptic

    David Heathcoat-Amory

    Pen and Sword, pp. 168

This is the shortest political memoir I have ever been sent for review. It is a marvel of concision: 27 years in the Commons set down in only 168 pages. Can any Spectator reader point to a briefer example of the genre?

Yet I confess that I opened Confessions of a Eurosceptic with a degree of trepidation.

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