' We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers but none I think which have been quite so illuminating It is a fascinating diary It is shorter than Barbara Castle's & although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's itis distinctly funnier'
- Lord Allen of Abbeydale (formerly Permanent Secretary at the Home Office) in The Times' It has an entertainment & educational value which isunique It is uproariously funny & passes the acid test ofbecoming more amusing at every subsequent reading I willgo so far as to claim that in the characters of Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby Messrs Lynn & Jay have createdsomething as immortal as PG Wodehouse's Bertie Woosterand Jeeves'
- Brian Walden in The Standard