Titlebook: Westminster and Beyond; Based on the B.B.C. Anthony King,Anne Sloman Book 1973 Anthony King and Anne Sloman 1973 Churchill.Conservative Pa

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Selecting Candidates: The Secret Garden,ly because our political parties deliberately kept the gates locked — and even patrolled the walls to keep outsiders from peering over. What was in the garden was the way the parties went about selecting their parliamentary candidates. ., yes, they were public, and everybody knew about them. But . o

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Women in Parliament,ll, but you are surprised to find it done at all.’ And that, even in the middle of the twentieth century, is still the view sometimes held about women as politicians. Women don’t make good politicians, it’s said, and even if they did they don’t really belong in politics. Now we’re not going to spend

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The Art of the Political Interviewer,ew twentieth-century art form: the political interview on radio or television. We aren’t going quite to turn the tables on political interviewers — we haven’t invited politicians into the studio to interview the interviewers — but to discuss the art we have with us three very experienced practitione

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Whips and Whipping,e public at large and even by some of their own colleagues — the two dozen or so party Whips in the House of Commons. We are going to look at them both as they seem to themselves — we talked to the Chief Whips of both of the major parties — and as they seem to those they whip — we talked to two back

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Question Time in the House, eventually they realised they were lost. ‘Where are we?’, they asked a farm labourer who happened to come along the road. He looked at them, a bit puzzled. ‘In a motor-car,’ he said. The Permanent Secretary turned to the Cabinet minister: ‘That’, he commented, ‘was the perfect answer to a Parliamen

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A Select Committee at Work,ork of the House of Commons: the work of select committees. It’s a pity that the term ‘select committee’ is so off-putting. It suggests a board-room full of elderly gentlemen deliberating ponderously on some rather dreary matter, whereas, in fact, select committees often attract younger Members of t