Smart Alec
Peter Clarke, 17 October 1996
Alec Douglas-Home
by D.R. Thorpe.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 540 pp., £25, October 1996,1 85619 277 6 Show More
by D.R. Thorpe.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 540 pp., £25, October 1996,
“... Viscount Stansgate to begin the spectacular exercise in downward social mobility which allowed Mr Tony Benn to become the arbiter of leftwing politics in the Seventies. That the second Viscount Hailsham might similarly choose to resume the political career of Mr Quintin Hogg was already on the cards. But Howard’s journalistic coup was to broaden the ... ”