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It was described as one of the most candid political memoirs in recent memory, and contained self-justification but also honesty about decisions made.
I think it's one of the very few weaknesses of your great country.
— Episode: 392. The Prime Minister Who Cried Brexit
Episode: 392. The Prime Minister Who Cried Brexit
It was described as one of the most candid political memoirs in recent memory, and contained self-justification but also honesty about decisions made.
I think it's one of the very few weaknesses of your great country.
Well, the discipline I put on myself was thinking, what did you think then? What do you think now? What decisions do you think you got right? What decisions do you think you got wrong? And look, all memoirs are exercises in self-justification.
And I accept there's quite a lot of self-justification in the book. But I tried to be honest about things that could have gone well, could have gone better.
I had always felt myself more of a Thatcherist than a Thatcherite.
I still shiver at the memory, he writes. They were asking Cameron which philosophers he'd read. Turned out the answer was not many.