“…Tony Crosland, a portrait of my former boss by his wife Susan Crosland, was hugely acclaimed when it came out, and as the modern generation stumbles across it, it acclaims once more. For this blends the personal side of politics with the policy. Susan Crosland was the first and amongst the best of the modern school of profile writers, and what this lacks in objectivity it gains in sheer acuity of observation.



Crosland (protégé of Hugh Gaitskell, Labour politician and author) is perhaps too much of a personality to prosper in the anally-retentive political world of today where to give free expression to one’s character is to bleed in front of the sharks. Still, a few manage to be both politicians and themselves even today – Peter Mandelson springs to mind And this book might encourage more to do the same.…” -reviewed by Lord David Lipsey in FiveBooks.

Full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/david-lipsey-on-british-politics ( )