I interviewed Gordon Brown - possibly the model for an ex-prime minister, certainly the model for the next chancellor ft.com/content/7c0fb9…

Already the spiciest election campaign Southport has seen since Baron de Forest, a family friend of the four-year-old AJP Taylor, slugged it out with Geoffrey Darymple-White in 1910

Concerning, deeply reported story about the unlikely owner of Southport Football Club

The achievements of Harold Wilson, the latest claims about his private life and how, too often, women in this period are defined by their relationships with men.

My take, as Harold’s biographer, in the Sunday Times The Times and The Sunday Times👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/99041a…

Harold Wilson’s secret affair + the most significant affairs in British politics

Latest The Spectator Coffee House Shots with Patrick Maguire + James Heale 👇

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Column from this morning’s Times: Angela Rayner’s tax riddle is clouding Labour’s election campaign

Have they now drawn a line?

thetimes.co.uk/article/618ce8…

Harold Wilson's advisers today revealed that he had an affair with a staff member while PM. Wilson, his wife, and the staff member have now all passed - so do Britons think it was right to now reveal the secret, or should it have remained unsaid?

45% say the secret should have…

These are my dogs Wilson and Castle. Wilson seems unphased since Patrick Maguire’s revelations

Wow. 💥 Harold Wilson’s Downing Street affair (and not with who you thought!). This is an absolutely astonishing story- and all credit to Patrick Maguire for breaking it. As I just said on Times Radio, even 50 years on, it’s something of a bombshell, and historically important.

Wonderful work by Patrick Maguire to get another piece of the Wilson kitchen Cabinet’s splits out into the record: thetimes.co.uk/article/harold…

Harold Wilson had affair while in No 10, advisers reveal bbc.in/49AdJ7k

Amusing to see imbeciles dissing this story. For anyone either old enough to remember Wilson - or simply interested in our country - it's a truly fascinating scoop.

This story is not about Marcia Williams thetimes.co.uk/article/harold…

My favourite story on The Times and The Sunday Times today — Harold Wilson’s secret Downing Street affair.

Former press secretary Joe Haines breaks nearly half a century of silence to tell the story of the prime minister’s relationship with Janet Hewlett-Davies.

Great scoop Patrick Maguire