List of British political memoirs

This is a list of British political memoirs:

Conservative

Labour

Liberal

Includes Liberals, Liberal Democrats and Social Democrats.

Others

Crossbenchers

• Memoirs by Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury (1890)
• Independent Member by A.P. Herbert (1950)
• Time to Declare by David Owen (1992)
• An Accidental MP by Martin Bell (2000)
• Spider Woman: A Life by Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond (Penguin Random House, 2021)

UKIP

• Nigel Farage (Biteback)
• Fighting Bull (2010)
• Flying Free (2011)
• The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything (2015)
• Guinea a Minute by Godfrey Bloom (2013)

SNP

• Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing by Winnie Ewing (2004)
• The Dream Shall Never Die: 100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever by Alex Salmond (HarperCollins, 2015)
• A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars (2021)
• Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon (Pan Macmillan, 2025)
• Keeping the Dream Alive by Joanna Cherry (Icon Books, 2026)

Plaid Cymru

• For the Sake of Wales: The Memoirs of Gwynfor Evans by Gwynfor Evans (1996)

Minor Parties

• And Now, Tomorrow by Vernon Bartlett (1960)
• My Life by Oswald Mosley (1968)
• The Eleventh Hour: A Call for British Rebirth by John Tyndall (1988)
• Many Shades of Black: Inside Britain's Far-Right by John Bean (1999)
• Never Give Up!: Standing Tall Through Adversity by Nikki Sinclaire (2013)
• Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change by Caroline Lucas (2015)
• The Great White Hope: The Life and Times of Alan ‘Howling Laud’ Hope by Howling Laud Hope (2020)

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