Chris Mullin

Chris Mullin was the Labour MP for Sunderland South from 1987 until 2010. He played a key role in Tony Blair's New Labour government chairing the Home Affairs Select Committee and served in three departments. He is the author of three volumes of diaries A View from the Foothills A Walk-On Part and Decline and Fall and the bestselling novel A Very British Coup re-published by Serpent's Tail which was turned into an award-winning television series.