A letter from Alistair Lexden was published in The Daily Telegraph on 28 April. The son-in-law of the Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton of Epsom, recently joined him in the Lords. Some thought that this may never have happened before. There are in fact many precedents.
His brief stint at the Home Office in 1910-11 was not an unqualified success. There were setbacks as well as achievements. Alistair Lexden assessed some of the main features of his record in a book review, published in Parliament’s magazine The House on 17 April.
Nigel Lawson, widely regarded as Britain’s finest post-war Chancellor, died in early April. Alistair Lexden, Conservative Party historian, recalls how he first became involved in the Party after two years as the City editor of The Sunday Telegraph.
Alistair Lexden has, on many occasions, condemned Boris Johnson’s Northern Ireland Protocol of 2019. It created an intolerable trade barrier within the UK and provoked uproar among Unionists in Northern Ireland. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) left the Northern Ireland Assembly in protest.
The long-running affair between Dorothy Macmillan and the bisexual Bob Boothby was widely known at the time, and initially caused Macmillan much pain; but it diminished over time.
In Horace Farquhar: A Bad Man Befriended by Kings, published on 8 March, Alistair Lexden uncovers the misdeeds of a scandalous figure, now largely forgotten, who died exactly a century ago in 1923. Two Kings befriended him, Edward VII and George V.
