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Was Graham Brady really the awesome power-broker he imagines?

His kiss-and-tell memoir implies that the past five Tory prime ministers all feared him. But the longtime Chair of the 1922 Committee was in reality no ‘kingmaker’

7 December 2024

9:00 AM

7 December 2024

9:00 AM

Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers Sir Graham Brady

Ithaka, pp.320, 25

The great parliamentary sketchwriter Quentin Letts, the Henry Lucy of our day, has described Sir Graham Brady (now Lord Brady) thus: ‘Were he a yacht, his galley would gleam, the decks would be scrubbed daily and there would be a large brass bell to summon matelots to morning parade. Commodore Brady runs a tight ship.’

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