The war is over for Solway’s exhausted, grief-stricken home front heroes and villains. Many, including revered union leader, Sam Bullock, have enthusiastically welcomed the Labour landslide and a new generation of MPs driving the government’s ambitious manifesto, promising cradle-to-grave care, full employment and housing renewal.

As the white...

In 1963, popular, widely respected Tory MP Norman Armstrong is a young Home Secretary in the new Douglas-Home administration. His unlikely friend, left-wing freelance lobby correspondent, Alf Burton, is right behind the new Home Secretary’s crusade against police corruption and organised crime in London’s West End, and to bring all of the Euston...

It is 1985. Months after the Brighton bombing, grief-stricken Home Secretary, Sir Norman Armstrong, has all but disappeared from public view, although he remains very much in control of his powerful government department.

Sir Norman finds himself once again at odds with his unlikely friend, influential left-wing political commentator, Alf Burton,...