Have I Said Too Much? : My Life in Politics & the Media

Award-winning broadcaster Iain Dale has led a life full of incident and success but also some very public failures. In this refreshingly honest account of his life and careers in business, politics and media, he tells all for the first time.

Award-winning broadcaster IainDale has led a life full of incident and success but also some very publicfailures. In this refreshingly honest account of his life and careers inbusiness, politics and media, he tells all for the first time. With the same raw candour thatearns him 750,000 weekly listeners, he recounts his journey from driving acombine harvester at age eight to driving the national conversation on LBC,taking in his encounters with a host of household names, including HM QueenElizabeth II, Sir Cliff Richard, Kylie Minogue, Joan Rivers, Jeremy Paxman,Olivia Newton-John, Dame Joan Collins, David Dimbleby, Miranda Hart and twelveof our Prime Ministers. Along the way, Iain reflects movingly on coming out atage forty, coming to terms with his thwarted political aspirations and theheartbreaking phone-ins that have made him 'the friend they've never met' tomillions. This is the ultimate insider'sguide to the corridors of power and the pressures of the studio. Whether he'snearly throwing up on Margaret Thatcher, coming to blows with senior MPs oraccidentally calling the Archbishop of Canterbury something less than pious onlive radio, this is Iain Dale off-air and unfiltered.