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Title: First Confession
Author: PATTEN CHRIS
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 29/05/2017
Imprint: ALLEN LANE
Price: $50.00
Publishing status: Active
Chris Patten was a cradle Catholic (hence the title), became one of the most prominent Tory ‘Wets’ of the 1980s and 1990s, and went on to hold a series of prominent public offices – Chairman of the Conservative Party, the last Governor of Hong Kong, European Commissioner for External Affairs, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the BBC, advisor to the Pope – as he self-deprecatingly puts it ‘a Grand Poo-bah, the Lord High Everything Else’. He writes with wry humour about his time in all these offices, taking us behind the scenes and showing us unexpected sides of many of the great figures of the day. In exploring his own identity he also examines the dangers of identity politics, which he encountered in several of his jobs, from Northern Ireland to Asia and the Middle East. No politician now writing is so purely enjoyable as Chris Patten.
ISBN: 9780241275597
Pages: 288