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The memoirs of former Labour MP Chris Mullin are the favourite choice for holiday reading among members of parliament, according to a survey conducted for Waterstone's by polling and research company ComRes.
Four per cent of MPs picked either Mullin's Decline and Fall or his A View from the Foothills, both published by Profile, while only 3% opted for former PM Tony Blair's A Journey (Random House).
Forestalling envious comparison, 3% also chose the book by Blair's rival Gordon Brown,
Beyond the Crash (Simon & Schuster).
The Lib Dems got a showing too, with 3% opting for David Laws' 22 Days in May (Biteback).
Other political books getting a mention on MPs' reading lists included George W Bush's Decision Points (Virgin), Peter Mandelson’s The Third Man (HarperCollins) and Bob Woodward’s Obama’s Wars (Simon & Schuster).
Meanwhile 3% eschewed politics altogether and plumped for Stieg Larsson's crime fiction Millennium trilogy (Quercus). One Conservative MP chose A Simples Life by meerkat advertising star Aleksandr Orlov, claiming "it makes me laugh".