When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only…
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About Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, was an English novelist, politician and convicted criminal. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth (Lincolnshire) from 1969 to 1974, but did not seek re-election after almost going bankrupt. Archer revived his fortunes as a novelist with his third novel Kane and Abel (1979). It remains one of the best-selling books in the world, with an estimated 34 million copies sold globally. Overall, his books have sold more than 320 million …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Jeffrey ArcherI put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
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I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.