Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers

by Graham Brady

320 pages, Paperback

Published June 5, 2025

Reviews

[Rufus Liverman · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did like some of this book, his final reflections are very insightful and overall it is an interesting book gives some really good reflections on the conservatives. HOWEVER did he really have to go on about grammar schools for so long, I get that it’s important to have something to be in politics for I respect that massively but there was a point in the book where he had been in Parliament for nearly a decade and it seemed like the only thing he did was moan about how terrible the situation with grammar schools was. Overall I did enjoy this book but it was not as good as some of the other political books I have read.

[Lewis Stanton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating insight of Prime Ministers at arms length. Sir Graham Brady was chairman of the 1922 committee from 2010 to 2024. This committee advised on the fate of 5 British PM's, from Cameron to Sunak. Sir Brady was the man who received the letters of no confidence which is ult

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good yet rather depressing account in the eye of the Tory storm.