The veteran broadcaster Michael Cockerell has interviewed ten prime ministers, from Harold Wilson to Boris Johnson. In this Daily Mail Political Book of the Year, he reflects on his long career, reveals how he puts politicians at their ease, and describes their quirks and idiosyncrasies, including the political cunning beneath Wilson’s avuncular image, Thatcher’s flirtatiousness, and Brown’s ferocious temper.
Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements; Michael Cockerell has spent his professional life stripping off the gloss. Over fifty years, he has gained unrivalled access to the secret chambers of Westminster and Whitehall. Here, he reveals in illuminating and often hilarious stories what our top politicians are really like behind the mask.
Drawing on his unique experience of having filmed all the past ten Prime Ministers, Cockerell tells how he manages to lull some of the wariest people in the land into candour, and shows how questions of sex are never far from the surface in Westminster. Amongst much else, he recounts: how Margaret Thatcher flirted with him on screen but attacked him by name in the Commons; how Tony Blair said he would willingly 'pay the blood price' in Iraq; how David Cameron learned from Enoch Powell always to make a big speech on a full bladder - and how Boris Johnson admitted to doubts about his ability to be Prime Minister.
Funny, riveting and above all revealing, Unmasking Our Leaders is an absorbing insight into half a century of British politics.
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