Political books: Jacqui Smith and Sir Menzies Campbell

The annual Political Book Awards are big business with biographies to fiction up for the top prize. Although some politicians use their diaries to dish the dirt on their colleagues.

David Thompson asked politicians what they read, and what they thought made a good, or bad, political book.

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