Continuing with the Ashdown theme, Paddy is the only author with three books featured in a survey of MPs’ summer reading according to Waterstone’s. Presumably the Brownites were trying to find out how to solve a problem like Afghanistan.
The other crucial information in the survey is that it was only thanks to Lib Dem MPs that the new Harry Potter secured its ranking.
Thank goodness the press keeps us abreast of these developments, and Lib Dem Voice contributors aren’t left spending August trawling the web for irrelevant survey snippets to post about.


