I am reading A Walk-On Part, the final volume of Chris Mullin’s diaries.
One very intriguing snippet tells of an encounter with John Major (with whom he got on well) in the division lobby one evening in January 1996 as that long period of Tory government was drawing to its close.
In response to a question, Mullin denied that he was writing. Major said ‘I thought you’d write a kiss-and-tell story.’ Mullin found this an odd thing to say & replied ‘That’s Edwina’s department.’
Edwina Curry’s [in]famous kiss-and-tell diaries did not appear until 2002, so readers are just left dying to know what Mullin meant by that riposte – he offers no explanation.
I suppose he must have been referring to Edwina’s novel, A Parliamentary Affair, but in the light of what we now know Mullin’s remark must have given John Major a real fright.
