What makes this biography a triumph is the way Bloch weaves the Scott story into a proper political and personal account of Thorpe's life. Michael Bloch's new biography of the former Liberal leader is never less than riveting. Michael Bloch's magisterial biography is not just a brilliant retelling of this amazing story ten years in the making, it is also the definitive character study of one of the most fascinating figures in post-war British politics.
Jeremy was acquitted of involvement but his career was in ruins. Scott's incessant boasts about their 'affair' became increasingly embarrassing, and eventually led to a bizarre murder plot to shut him up for good. But as his star steadily rose so his nemesis drew ever nearer: a time-bomb in the form of Norman Scott, a homosexual wastrel and sometime male model with whom Jeremy had formed an ill-advised relationship in the early 1960s. When he became leader of the Liberal Party in 1967 at the age of just thirty-seven, he seemed destined for truly great things. The story of Jeremy Thorpe's rapid rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the most remarkable in British politics. 'A revealing, insightful and gripping biography of one of the most extraordinary people ever to lead a British political party' Observer * A brilliantly written, insightful and entertaining life of the disgraced former leader of the Liberal Party - one of the most colourful characters of post-war British politics
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