Compiled into this one volume is a set of the most witty, eccentric and downright insulting quotations Tony Blair's former Minister for Sport and ex-member of the disbanded GLC, Tony Banks.
No one was more surprised to be appointed a Minister than the effervescent Tony Banks. And he got his dream job - Minister for Sport. Political insider Iain Dale charts his rise to respectabulity and has compiled a timely book of the most witty, eccentirc and downright insulting quotations by and about 'Our Tone' into one smartly bound volume.
In less time than it takes to conceive and raise a Tory leader, Banks has ascended like a Phoenix in a Chelsea shirt from the flames of the GLC and brought a little much needed East End street cred to the corridors of power.
Never one to bite his tongue, Banks had had something to say on everything from the contaminated Falklands penguins to 'Cecil's plonker' and it's all here.
This book was originally published in 1998.
Sadly Tony Banks died in 2006 at the age of 64.