List of British political memoirs

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This is a list of British political memoirs:

Image	Name	Notes	Title	Year	Publisher
	David Amess	Murdered in 2021	Ayes & Ears: A Survivor's Guide to Westminster	2020	Luath
	Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft	Party Treasurer 1998-2001	Dirty Politics, Dirty Times	2005	Biteback
	Kenneth Baker	Home Secretary 1990-2	The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics	1993	Faber & Faber
	Gavin Barwell	Downing Street Chief of Staff 2017-9	How to Win a Marginal Seat: My Year Fighting For My Political Life	2016	Biteback
			Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street	2021	Atlantic
	John Bercow	Speaker of the Commons 2009-19	Unspeakable	2020	Orion
	John Biffen	Leader of the Commons 1982-7	Semi-Detached	2013	Biteback
	Robert Boothby	MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine East 1924-50	I Fight To Live: Autobiography	1947
	R. A. Butler	First Secretary of State 1962-3	The Art of the Possible	1971
	David Cameron	Prime Minister 2010-6	For the Record	2019	William Collins
	Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington	Secretary-General of NATO 1984-8	Reflect on Things Past: The Memoirs of Lord Carrington	1988	Harper & Row
	Austen Chamberlain	Foreign Secretary 1924-9 Joint Leader 1921-2	Down the Years	1935	Cassell
	Sydney Chapmen	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1992-5	Back to the Drawing Board: Memoirs of a Backbencher	2010	Absolute Design Solutions
	Alan Clark	MP for Plymouth Sutton 1974-92	Alan Clark Diaries	1993-2002	Orion
	Ken Clarke	Lord Chancellor 2010-2	Kind of Blue	2016	Pan Macmillan
	Winston Churchill	Prime Minister 1940-5 and '5105	The Second World War	1948-53	Cassell
	Alec Douglas-Home	Prime Minister 1963-4	The Way the Wind Blows: An Autobiography by Lord Home	1976	Fontana
	Alan Duncan	MP for Rutland and Melton 1992-2019	In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister	2021	HarperCollins
	Anthony Eden	Prime Minister 1955-7	The Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden: Full Circle	1960	Cassell
	Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler	Party Chairman 1992-4	A Political Suicide: The Conservatives' Voyage into the Wilderness	2008	Politico's
	Mark Francois	Chair of the European Research Group	Spartan Victory: The Inside Story of the Battle for Brexit	2021	Independently
	Norman Tebbit	Party Chairman 1985-7	Upwardly Mobile: An Autobiography	1988	Weidenfeld and Nicolson
	Peter Temple-Morris	MP for Leominster 1974-2001	Across the Floor: A Life in Dissenting Politics	2015	I. B. Tauris
	Margaret Thatcher	Prime Minister 1979-90	The Downing Street Years	1993	HarperCollins
			The Path to Power	1995
	John Major	Prime Minister 1990-7	John Major: The Autobiography	1999	HarperCollins
	Brian Mawhinney	Party Chairman 1995-7	Just A Simple Belfast Boy	2013	Biteback
	Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	Leadership candidate in 1989	Stand Up and be Counted	1990	Random House
	John Boyd-Carpenter	Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1962-4	Way of Life: The Memoirs of John Boyd-Carpenter	1980	Sidgwick & Jackson
	Sebastian Coe	President of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008-12	Running My Life: The Autobiography	2013	Hodder & Stoughton
	Nick de Bois	MP for Enfield North 2010-5	Confessions of a Recovering MP	2017	Biteback
	Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington	Baroness-in-Waiting 1983-5 and 92-7	Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir	2015	Pan Macmillan
	Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton	Father of the House of Commons 1945-51	Fifty Tumultuous Years	1955	Hutchinson
	Edward Heath	Prime Minister 1970-4	The Course of My Life	1998	Bloomsbury
	Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone	Lord Chancellor 1970-4 and 1979–87	The Door Wherein I Went	1975	Collins
			A Sparrow's Flight: Memoirs	1990	Fontana
	Ann Widdecombe	Minister of State for Prisons 1995-7	Strictly Ann: The Autobiography	2013	Orion
	David Waddington	Governor of Bermuda 1992-7	Memoirs: Dispatches from Margaret Thatcher's last Home Secretary	2012	Biteback
	William Waldegrave	Health Secretary 1990-2	A Different Kind of Weather: A Memoir	2015	Little, Brown Book Group
	Douglas Hurd	Foreign Secretary 1989-95	Memoirs	2003	Abacus
	Bernard Ingham	Downing Street Press Secretary 1979-90	Kill the Messenger	1991	HarperCollins
	Tom King	Defence Secretary 1989-92	A King Among Ministers: Fifty Years in Parliament Recalled	2021	Unicorn
	Ian Lang	Scotland Secretary 1990-5	Blue Remembered Years: A Political Memoir	2002	Politico's
	Nigel Lawson	Chancellor of the Exchequer 1983-9	The View from No.11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical	1992	Bantam
	Andrea Leadsom	Leader of the House of Commons 2017-9	Snakes and Ladders: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Politics	2022	Biteback
	Selwyn Lloyd	Speaker of the House of Commons 1971-6	Mr Speaker, Sir	1976	Cape
			Suez 1956: A Personal Account	1978
	Andrew Mitchell	International Development Secretary 2010-2	Beyond A Fringe: Tales from a Reformed Establishment Lackey	2021	Biteback
	Emma Nicholson	MEP for South East England 1999-2009	Secret Society: Inside - and Outside - the Conservative Party	1996
	Matthew Parris	MP for West Derbyshire 1979-86	Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics	2002	Penguin
	Chris Patten	Governor of Hong Kong 1992-7	First Confession: A Sort of Memoir	2017	Penguin
	Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale	Secretary of State for Transport 1983-6	My Style of Government: The Thatcher Years	1991	Hutchinson
	Malcolm Rifkind	Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee 2010-5	Power and Pragmatism: The Memoirs of Malcolm Rifkind	2016	Biteback
	Sasha Swire	Wife of a Minister of State 2010-6	Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power	2020	Little, Brown Book Group
	Frank Taylor	MP for Manchester Moss Side 1961-74	Called to Account	1993	Pentland
	Teddy Taylor	Baby of the Commons 1964-5	Teddy Boy Blue	2008	Kennedy & Boyd
	George Walden	MP for Buckingham 1983-97	Lucky George: Memoirs of an Anti-Politician	1999	Allen Lane
	Peter Walker	Wales Secretary 1987-90	Staying Power: An Autobiography	1991	Bloomsbury
	Rhodes Boyson	MP for Brent North 1974-97	Speaking My Mind	1994	Peter Owen
	John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir	Governor-General of Canada 1935-40	Memory Hold-the-Door	1940	Hodder and Stoughton
	Duff Cooper	Ambassador to France 1944-8	Old Men Forget	1953	Rupert Hart-Davis
	Julian Critchley	MP for Aldershot 1970-97	The Palace of Varieties	1983	Faber & Faber
			A Bag of Boiled Sweets	1994
	Edward du Cann	Chairman of the 1922 Committee 1972-84	Two Lives: The Political and Business Careers of Edward du Cann	1995	Images
	Rory Stewart	MP for Penrith & the Border 2010-19	Politics on the Edge	2023	Jonathan Cape
	George Gardiner	MP for Reigate 1974-97	A Bastard's Tale: The Political Memoirs of George Gardiner	1999	Aurum
	Teresa Gorman	MP for Billericay 1987-2001	No, Prime Minister!	2001	J. Blake
	Jerry Hayes	MP for Harwood 1983-97	An Unexpected MP: Confessions of a Political Gossip	2014	Biteback
	Geoffrey Howe	Deputy Prime Minister 1989-90	Conflict of Loyalty	1994	Macmillan
	Gerald Nabarro	MP for Kidderminster 1950-64	NAB 1: Portrait of a Politician	1970	R. Maxwell
			Exploits of a Politician	1973	Arthur Barker
	Richard Needham	MP for North Wiltshire 1979-97	Honourable Member	1983	P. Stephens
			One Man, Two Worlds: Memoir of a Businessman in Politics	2021	Blackstaff
	Nigel Nicolson	MP for Bournemouth East & Christchurch 1952-9	Long Life: Memoirs	1997	Phoenix
	John Nott	Defence Secretary 1981-3	Here Today Gone Tomorrow: Memoirs of an Errant Politician	2002	Politico's
	Elizabeth Peacock	MP for Batley and Spen 1983-97	A Yorkshire Lass at the Court of Thatcher	2013	Pen & Sword
	James Spicer	MP for West Dorset 1974-97	Jim's Journey	2014	Independently
	Michael Spicer	Chairman of the 1922 Committee 2001-10	The Spicer Diaries	2012	St Martin's
	Edward Spears	MP for Carlisle 1931-45	Assignment to Catastrophe	1954-5	A. A. Wyn
	Cecil Parkinson	Party Chairman 1981-3 and '97-8	Right at the centre: An Autobiography	1992	Weidenfeld and Nicolson
	Liz Truss	Prime Minister 2022	Ten Years to Save the West	2024	Biteback
	Boris Johnson	Prime Minister 2019-22	Unleashed	2024	William Collins
	Theresa May	Prime Minister 2016-19	The Abuse of Power	2023	Headline
	Matt Hancock	Secretary of State for Health & Social Care 2018-21	Pandemic Diaries	2022	Biteback
	Craig Oliver	Downing Street Director of Communications	Unleashing Demons	2016	Hodder & Stoughton
	Nadine Dorries	MP for Mid-Bedfordshire 2005-23	The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson	2023	HarperCollins

Image	Name	Notes	Title	Year	Publisher
	Ann Clwyd	MP for Cynon Valley 1984-2019	Rebel With A Cause: A Political Life	2017
	Diane Abbott	MP Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987	A Woman Like Me: A Memoir	2022	Penguin
	Clement Attlee	Prime Minister 1945-51	As It Happened	1954	Viking
	Ed Balls	Children, Schools and Families Secretary 2007-10	Speaking Out: Lessons in Life and Politics	2016	Random House
	Tony Blair	Prime Minister 1997-2007	A Journey	2010	Random House
	Tony Benn	Energy Secretary 1975-9	Dare to be a Daniel: Then and Now	2012	Random House
	David Blunkett	Home Secretary 2001-4	The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit	2006	Bloomsbury
	Betty Boothroyd	Speaker of the Commons 1992-2000	The Autobiography	2002	Penguin Random House
	George Brown, Baron George-Brown	Foreign Secretary 1966-8	In My Way: Memoirs	1971	Gollancz
	Gordon Brown	Prime Minister 2007-10	My Life, Our Times	2017	Random House
	W. J. Brown	General Secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association 1921-42	So Far...	1943
	James Callaghan	Prime Minister 1976-9	Time and Chance	1987	Collins
	Alastair Campbell	Downing Street Press Secretary 1997-2000	The Blair Years	2007	A. Knopf
	Michael Cashman	MEP for West Midlands 1999-2014	One of Them: From Albert Square to Parliament Square	2021	Bloomsbury
	Barbara Castle	First Secretary of State 1968-70	Fighting All The Way	1993	Macmillan
	Peter Hain	Wales Secretary 2002-8 and 09-10	Outside In	2012	Biteback
	Harriet Harman	Interim Leader 2010 and 2015	A Woman's Work	2017	Penguin
	Roy Hattersley	Deputy Leader 1983-92	Who Goes Home?: Scenes from a Political Life	1995	Little, Brown Book Group
	Peter Mandelson	Business Secretary 2008-10	The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour	2010	Harper
	Bob Marshall-Andrews	MP for Medway 1997-2010	Off Message: The Complete Antidote to Political Humbug	2011	Profile
	Roy Mason	Northern Ireland Secretary 1976-9	Paying the Price	1999	Robert Hale
	Greville Janner	MP for Leicester West 1974-97	To Life!: The Memoirs of Greville Janner	2016	Sutton
	Alan Johnson	MP for Hull West & Hessle 1997-2017	This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood	2013	Bantam
			Please, Mister Postman	2014	Transworld
			The Long and Winding Road	2016
			In My Life: A Music Memoir	2018
	Carwyn Jones	First Minister of Wales 2009-2018	Not Just Politics	2020	Headline
	Robert Kilroy-Silk	MP for Ormskirk 1974-83	Hard Labour: The Political Diary of Robert Kilroy-Silk	1986	Chatto & Windus
	Oona King	MP for Bethnal Green & Bow 1997-2005	House Music: The Oona King Diaries	2007	Bloomsbury
	Damian McBride	Downing Street Press Secretary 2007-9	Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin	2013	Biteback
	Len McCluskey	General Secretary of United	Always Red	2021	OR
	Henry McLeish	First Minister of Scotland 2000-1	Scotland First: Truth and Consequences	2004	Mainstream
	Ian Mikardo	MP for Bow & Poplar 1983-7	Back-Bencher	1988	Weidenfeld and Nicolson
	Ernest Millington	MP for Chelmsford 1945-50	Was That Really Me?	2006	Fultus
	Austin Mitchell	MP for Great Grimsby 1977-2015	Austin Mitchell's Yorkshire Jokes	2001	Great Northern
			Austin Mitchell's Yorkshire Sayings	2004
			Calendar Boy	2014	Pen & Sword
			Revenge of the Rich: The Neoliberal Revolution in Britain and New Zealand	2017	Canterbury University
			Confessions of a Political Maverick	2018	Biteback
	Rhodri Morgan	First Minister of Wales 2000-9	Rhodri: A Political Life in Wales and Westminster	2017	University of Wales
	Herbert Morrison	Interim Leader 1955	An Autobiography	1960	Odhams
	Mo Mowlam	Northern Ireland Secretary 1997-9	Momentum: The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People	2002	Hodder & Stoughton
	Maureen Colquhoun	MP for Northampton North 1974-9	A Woman in the House	1980	Scan
	Robin Cook	Foreign Secretary 1997-2001	Point of Departure	2003	Simon & Schuster
	Hugh Dalton	Chancellor of the Exchequer 1945-7	High Tide and After: Memoirs 1945-1960	1953	Muller
	Tam Dalyell	Father of the Commons 2001-5	The Importance of Being Awkward: The Autobiography of Tam Dalyell	2011	Birlinn
	Alistair Darling	Chancellor of the Exchequer 2007-10	Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11	2011	Atlantic
	Paul Flynn	MP for Newport West 1987-2019	The Usual Suspect	2010	Biteback
	George Galloway	MP for Glasgow Hillhead 1987-2005	I'm Not the Only One	2004	Penguin
	Parmjit Dhanda	MP for Gloucester 2001-10	My Political Race: An Outsider's Journey to the Heart of British Politics	2015	Biteback
	Tom Driberg	Party Chairman 1957-8	Ruling Passions: The Autobiography by Tom Driberg	1977	Stein and Day
	Maria Fyfe	MP for Glasgow Maryhill 1987-2001	A Problem Like Maria: A Woman's Eye View of Life as an MP	2014	Luath
	Bryan Gould	Chair of the Fabian Society 1988-9	Goodbye to All That	1995	Macmillan
	Denis Healey	Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-9	The Time of my Life	1994	Random House
	Eric Heffer	MP for Liverpool Walton 1964-91	Never a Yes Man: The Life and Politics of an Adopted Liverpudlian	1991	Verso
	Geoff Hoon	Defence Secretary 1999-2005	See How They Run	2021	Unicorn
	Denis Howell	Minister for Sport 1974-9	Made in Birmingham: The Memoirs of Denis Howell	1990	Queen Anne
	Ken Livingstone	Mayor of London 2000-8	You Can't Say That	2011	Faber & Faber
	Stan Newens	MEP for Central London 1984-99	In Quest of a Fairer Society: My Life and Politics	2011	Memoir Club
	Fiona Onasanya	MP for Peterborough 2017-9	Snakes and Adders: A Set Up for the Step Up	2020	Independently
	Tom Pendry	MP for Stalybridge and Hyde 1970-2001	Taking It On The Chin: Memoirs of a Parliamentary Bruiser	2016	Biteback
	Jess Phillips	MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015	Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP	2016	Simon & Schuster
		MP for The Wrekin 1929-31	Life is Good: An Autobiography	1939	F. Muller
	John Prescott	Deputy Prime Minister 1997-2007	Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches	2008	Headline Review
	Nick Raynsford	MP for Greenwich and Woolwich 1997-2015	Substance Not Spin: An Insider's View of Success and Failure in Government	2016	Policy
	Geoffrey Robinson	MP for Coventry North West 1976-2019	The Unconventional Minister: My Life Inside New Labour	2000	Michael Joseph
	Joan Ruddock	MP for Lewisham Deptford 1987-2015	Going Nowhere: A Memoir	2016	Biteback
	Hartley Shawcross	Attorney General for England and Wales 1945-51	Life Sentence: The Memoirs of Lord Shawcross	1995	Constable
	Wes Streeting	MP for Ilford North since 2015	One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On	2023	Hodder & Stoughton
	George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy	Speaker of the Commons 1976-83	Mr. Speaker: The Memoirs of Viscount Tonypandy	1985	Century
	Jack Straw	Lord Chancellor 2007-10	Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor	2012	Pan Macmillan
	George Wigg, Baron Wigg	MP for Dudley 1945-67	George Wigg	1972	Joseph
	Harold Wilson	Prime Minister 1964-70 and '74-6	Memoirs: The Making of a Prime Minister 1916–1964	1986	Weidenfeld and Nicolson
	Jack Ashley	MP for Stoke-on-Trent South 1966-92	Acts of Defiance	1994	Reinhardt
	Jeremy Bray	MP for Middlesbrough West (1962-70), Motherwell and Wishaw (1974-13) and Motherwell South (1983-97)	Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Science,Politics and Trust: A Parliamentary Life	2004	Elizabeth Bray
	Fenner Brockway	General Secretary of the Independent Labour Party 1933-9	Inside the Left: Thirty Years of Platform, Press, Prison and Parliament	1942	G. Allen & Unwin
			Towards Tomorrow	1977	Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
			98 Not Out	1986	Quartet

Includes Liberals, Liberal Democrats and Social Democrats.

Image	Name	Notes	Title	Year	Publisher
	Paddy Ashdown	Leader 1988-99	A Fortunate Life: The Autobiography of Paddy Ashdown	2010	Aurum
	Norman Baker	MP for Lewes 1997-2015 Minister of State for Crime Prevention 2013-14	Against the Grain	2015	Biteback
	Vince Cable	Deputy Leader 2006-10 MP for Twickenham 1997-2015	Free Radical: A Memoir	2010	Atlantic
	Menzies Campbell	Leader 2006-7	My Autobiography	2008	Hodder & Stoughton
	Nick Clegg	Leader 2007–15, Deputy Prime Minister 2010-15	Politics: Between the Extremes	2016	Random House
	Tim Farron	Leader 2015-17	A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal	2019	SPCK
	Jeremy Thorpe	Leader 1967-76	In My Own Time	1999	Biteback
	Shirley Williams	Leader in the House of Lords 2001-4	Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography of Shirley Williams	2009	Little, Brown Book Group
	Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard	Chief Executive 2003-9	Winning Here: My Campaigning Life	2018	Biteback
	David Steel	Leader 1976-88 Liberal Leader 1976-88	Against Goliath: David Steel's Story	1989	Weidenfeld and Nicolson
	Jo Grimond	Leader 1956-67	Memoirs	1979	Holmes & Meier
	David Lloyd George	Prime Minister 1916-22 Leader 1926-31	War Memoirs of David Lloyd George	1933-7	Ivor Nicholson & Watson
	Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank	Leader in the House of Lords 1997-2001	Fourth Among Equals	2000	Politico's
	Cyril Smith	Chief Whip in the House of Commons 1976-7	Big Cyril: The Autobiography	1977	W. H. Allen
	Mark Oaten	Chair 2001-3	Screwing Up: How One MP Survived Politics, Scandal and Turning Forty	2009	Biteback
	Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne	MP for Lincoln 1962-74	Against the Tide: Politics and Beyond - A Memoir	2014	Biteback
	Roy Jenkins	SDP Leader 1982-3 Leader in the Lords 1988-97	A Life at the Centre	1991	Macmillan
	David Laws	MP for Yeovil 2001-15	22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition	2010	Biteback
			Coalition: The Inside Story of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government	2016
			Coalition Diaries, 2012–2015	2017

• An Accidental MP by Martin Bell (2000)
• Independent Member by A.P. Herbert (1950)
• Time to Declare by David Owen (1992)
• Memoirs by Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury (1890)
• Spider Woman: A Life by Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond (Penguin Random House, 2021)

• Guinea a Minute by Godfrey Bloom (2013)
• Nigel Farage (Biteback)
  • Fighting Bull (2010)
  • Flying Free (2011)
  • The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything (2015)

• Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing by Winnie Ewing (2004)
• The Dream Shall Never Die: 100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever by Alex Salmond (HarperCollins, 2015)
• A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars (2021)

• For the Sake of Wales: The Memoirs of Gwynfor Evans by Gwynfor Evans (1996)

• The Eleventh Hour: A Call for British Rebirth by John Tyndall (1988)
• And Now, Tomorrow by Vernon Bartlett (1960)
• Many Shades of Black: Inside Britain's Far-Right by John Bean (1999)
• The Great White Hope: The Life and Times of Alan ‘Howling Laud’ Hope by Howling Laud Hope (2020)
• Never Give Up!: Standing Tall Through Adversity by Nikki Sinclaire (2013)
• My Life by Oswald Mosley (1968)
• Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change by Caroline Lucas (2015)