By Brian Mawhinney
HarperCollins. 262 pages. £16.99 (hardback)
ISBN 0 00 274062 1
This is far from the usual boring self-justifying political memoir; Brian Mawhinney is a man with a message. He is the first evangelical in living memory to hold cabinet office and he wants to put us right about our attitude to politics and politicians.
He certainly seems to have a case. The reaction of 'George', a member of his boyhood Open Brethren Assembly, to his selection as Tory candidate for Peterborough accused him of 'glory seeking, arrogance, wanting political power, neglecting the faith and becoming worldly'. He should put all this foolishness behind him.
