What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts
the lid. For more than twenty years she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and
tribulations of being a political plus-one and gives us a ringside seat at the seismic
political events of the last decade. A professional partner and loyal spouse Swire has strong
political opinions herself - sometimes more 'No Minister' than 'Yes'. She detonates the
stereotype of the dutiful wife. From shenanigans in Budleigh Salterton to state banquets at
Buckingham Palace gun-toting terrorist busters in pizza restaurants to dinners in Downing
Street sitting next to Boris Johnson Devon hedges to partying with City hedgies she observes
the great and the not-so-great at the closest of quarters. The results are painfully revealing
and often hilariously funny. Here are the friendships and the fall-outs the general elections
and the leadership contests the scandals and the rivalries. Swire showed up shored up and
rarely shut up. She also wrote it all down. Diary of an MP's Wife is a searingly honest wildly
indiscreet and often uproarious account of what life is like in the thick of it.
