Articles tagged In Conversation:
From the Archives: In Conversation with Harriet Harman
- 4 Feb 2019
How are you enjoying the new job? It’s really great to be being shadow international development. I’ve got a big diaspora community in my constituency so I’m one of the few MPs where my constituents are happy for me to go to Africa as often as I like because that’s their c...
From the Archives: In Conversation with Tony Benn
- 4 Feb 2019
This interview took place at the end of 2008 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. ID: When you stood down from Parliament did you think you would enjoy your post-parliamentary life? TB: Before she died, my wife Caroline said, when you do stand down (and we had agreed...
From the Archives: In Conversation with David Cameron
- 4 Feb 2019
This interview was conducted in mid 2009 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. ID: It’s June 5 2010, you’ve just done your ‘Where there is Discord, may be bring harmony’ bit, you’ve opened the bottle of Newky Brown which Gordon Brown has left you as a welcome present. Wh...
From the Archives: In Conversation with David Owen
- 3 Feb 2019
This interview was conducted in early 2010 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. ID: What is your role in politics nowadays? DO: I am a voice. I very rarely vote in the House of Lords and I focus entirely on international affairs. It would be unwise to pretend you hav...
From the Archives: In Conversation with David Starkey
- 3 Feb 2019
This interview was conducted in early May 2009 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. ID: How did you first get into history? DS: Almost accidentally. It was by no means a subject I was most interested in. Most people thought I was going to be a scientist. My best ...
From the Archives: In Conversation with John Bercow
- 3 Feb 2019
This interview was conducted in December 2009 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. ID So what’s a nice boy from the University of Essex doing in a place like this? JB: I enjoy it, I enjoy the role, I enjoy Speaker’s House. It would be dishonest and misleading to...
From the Archives: In Conversation with Boris Johnson
- 3 Feb 2019
This interview was conducted in the summer of 2008 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. How has the mayor’s job differed from what you may have expected on your first day? It’s infinitely better and more difficult. Difficult in what way? Just the complexity of ...
From the Archives: In Conversation with Ann Widdecombe
- 3 Feb 2019
ID: How much of your time are thinking about and preparing for retirement? AW: Quite a lot, but the plans have been in place for a long time. I’ve bought a house on Dartmoor. I know exactly what I’m going to do. The office is beginning to gear up. We’ve got 22 years of arch...
From The Archives: In Conversation With Andrew Neil
- 3 Feb 2019
This interview appeared in the September edition of Total Politics Magazine in 2010. I read on Wikipedia that you were tutored by Vince Cable at university. Only briefly. In my final year at university when I was doing political economy and political science at the Unive...
From the Archives: Long Read 'In Conversation with Shirley Williams'
- 7 Jan 2019
Iain: Do you enjoy Question Time? Shirley: Mostly I do. I’ve had a couple of experiences that I didn’t enjoy at all. I think almost entirely with the Hitchens brothers. I can tell you from personal experience that if you have both Hitchens, it is devastating! One thing, the...