Pride and Perjury

When Jonathan Aitken stepped from Number 10 Downing Street on July 20th 1994, he was soon tipped as next Leader of the Conservative Party. John Major had just appointed him First Secretary to the Treasury and his future could not have been brighter.

What went wrong?

Within a year headlines appeared such as ''Aitken tried to arrange girls for Saudi friends'' and ''New Light on who paid what at The ...