Sunday Times Political Book of the YearA Book of the Year in the New Statesman, Financial Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Mail on Sunday and The Times ‘They’re the wickedest political diaries since Alan Clark’s’ Daily Mail’Riotously candid’ Decca Aitkenhead, Sunday TimesWhat is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. For more than twenty years she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one, and gives us a ringside seat at the seismic political events of the last decade. A professional partner and loyal spouse, Swire has strong political opinions herself – sometimes more ‘No, Minister’ than ‘Yes’. She detonates the stereotype of the dutiful wife. From shenanigans in Budleigh Salterton to state banquets at Buckingham Palace, gun-toting terrorist busters in pizza restaurants to dinners in Downing Street sitting next to Boris Johnson, Devon hedges to partyi