Nick Thomas-Symonds seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit. He was Keir Starmer's choice as shadow Home Secretary when he was first elected, but as the soft left have been marginalised he has steadily been demoted - now a minister without portfolio. not sure how much of it is due to his lack of impact vs his disagreements with the leadership over policy vs his own disillusionment with the rightward drift of the party. He's obviously got time on his hands, having cranked out biographies of Bevan, Attlee and now Wilson in recent year. I'm not sure how much we needed new biographies of these leaders being so well-served already, but there's plenty of people like me that will buy and read them. The main things about Wilson I learnt were his support and commitment to the Scouting movement, which I wasn't aware of before, and the influence of his congregationalist movement upbringing on him.
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