Volume 44, Number 14 · September 25, 1997
Betrayal
By Jonathan Mirsky
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong
by Jonathan Dimbleby
Little Brown, 461 pp., £22.50
It is unusual in British political life for a high official to leave his position and immediately reveal in his own words or through an intermediary what in his opinion really happened while he was in office. Furthermore, unless he has been roughly dismissed, it is perhaps unprecedented for such an official to claim that almost everyone with whom he worked, and especially his superiors, betrayed him or failed to support him.
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