Sleazing, Sniping, Sneaking and Back-Biting
Paul Foot, 3 April 1997
Once a Jolly Bagman: Memoirs
by Alistair McAlpine.
Weidenfeld, 269 pp., £20, March 1997,9780297817376 Show More
by Alistair McAlpine.
Weidenfeld, 269 pp., £20, March 1997,
“... back-bench heyday as a semi house-trained polecat. The army of rats has now been joined by Lord McAlpine of West Green, Thatcher’s ‘jolly bagman’, as he calls himself. Margaret Thatcher’s affection for the British construction industry was legendary. She loved the world of quick profits from government contracts, and for all her much-hyped ... ”
