How does it feel to lose your job in front of 10 million people? To ask
a government whip for time to see your husband? To represent the
Secretary of State for Health at a family-planning clinic on the day you
fail your fifth IVF cycle? To be loved and hated by people who don't
even know you? To be the second black woman elected to Parliament? To be
a Jewish woman representing a largely Muslim constituency? To be the
only MP who likes house music? A decade is a long time in politics, and
in these candid diaries Oona King shows how she has changed since
becoming an MP in 1997. She blows the lid off Westminster, illuminating
the corridors of power with humour and insight, and finally reveals how
she chose to abandon her ambition to become Prime Minister in favour of
another ambition: to have a life.
