An Accidental Mp - Tapa dura

"A nice enough man but totally unsuited to politics" Neil Hamilton. Tired of warfare, Martin Bell was looking for something new. He found it in the General Election campaigning against Neil (and Christine) Hamilton for the constituency of Tatton. This is his account of the campaign and the years in Parliament that followed - a unique perspective on democracy, the role of an individual within the House of Commons and a fresh entertaining account of an unplanned career.

Martin Bell was a staff member of BBC TV news from 1965 to his sudden retirement in April 1997. Awarded the OBE in 1992, he was also voted Royal Television Society Reporter of the Year in 1977 and again in 1993 for his work in Bosnia. He was elected as an Independent MP for the Tatton constituency in 1997 and is the author of IN HARMS WAY published by Penguin in 1996.