First Confession: A Sort of Memoir

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Chris Patten was once a cradle Catholic (hence the title), turned into one of the crucial prominent Tory ‘Wets’ of the 1980s and 1990s, and went on to carry 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 The whole lot Else’. He writes with wry humor about his time in these kind of offices, taking us at the back of the scenes and showing us unexpected sides of among the great figures of the day. In exploring his own identity he also examines the risks of identity politics, which he encountered in a couple of of his jobs, from Northern Ireland to Asia and the Middle East. No politician now writing is so purely enjoyable as Chris Patten
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