The Rt Hon Frank Field MP was formerly Minister for Welfare Reform in Tony Blair's first government. He was MP for Birkenhead for 40 years from 1979 to 2019. He has spent his whole life fighting the war on poverty. Field died in April 2024.
Frank Field is one of the most important, iconoclastic and remarkable politicians of his generation. This book is told with his Christian belief, regrets and all, and his trademark searing honesty. -- Nick Timmins For the past half-century Frank Field has been an outstanding parliamentarian, social reformer and champion of the disadvantaged. He joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 and was expelled from it at the age of 78. -- Brian & Rachel Griffiths The former MP’s outstanding new book blends memoir with incisive, practical ideas. [...] Few MPs have done so much to improve the voters' lives. This prophet was dishonoured in his own party, but thoughtful voters everywhere are grateful for his service. -- Tim Stanley, The Telegraph Field has been a kindly light to lighten our politics. One wishes more MPs were as amiable and independent-minded, though every system does need its scoundrels and chancers. -- Quentin Letts, The Times Field is a salutary role-model for those of us who tend to be politically or religiously tribal. -- Richard Harries, the Church Times