Allan Mallinson

What I really said to Gordon Brown: Field Marshal Lord Guthrie sets the record straight

Often accused of being ‘Tony’s General’, Guthrie describes his fierce battles over the defence budget with Brown as chancellor

Field Marshal Lord Guthrie. [Alamy]
  • Comments

  • Peace, War and Whitehall: A Memoir

    Field Marshal Lord Guthrie

    Bloomsbury, pp. 288, £25

Already a subscriber? Log in

This article is for subscribers only

Get a free bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label when you subscribe to The Spectator for just £12 in our Black Friday sale

  • Free bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky, worth £30
  • Unlimited access to our website and app
  • Enjoy Spectator newsletters and podcasts
  • Explore our online archive, going back to 1828

Read next

Trending

Lionel Shriver

The true meaning of free speech

From the magazine
Right after Donald Trump’s landslide, I opined on YouTube that this turning point could sound the death knell for Woke World – an observation that decayed to hoary cliché within hours. I also supposed that Trump’s triumph might signal to the UK that all that diversity, equality and inclusion/systemic racism guff is totally yesterday –

More on defence

Also by Allan Mallinson

Latest

Comments

Black Friday sale: Get 10 weeks for just $1

Unlimited access to the The Spectator, online and via the app

Already a subscriber? Log in