Bugger everyone
R.W. Johnson: The prime ministers 1945-2000, 19 October 2000
The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders since 1945
by Peter Hennessy.
Allen Lane, 686 pp., £25, October 2000,0 7139 9340 5 Show More
by Peter Hennessy.
Allen Lane, 686 pp., £25, October 2000,
“... champagne and brandy . . . to incapacitate any lesser man’, as his private secretary John Colville put it. He would talk to ministers with Toby, his budgie, alighting (and sometimes doing more than that) on their heads. He had frequent sleeps. His method of dealing with crises, he explained, was to ‘turn out the light, say “bugger ... ”