Stephen Parkinson, Arena of Ambition, Icon Books, London, 2009

It led to Norman Lamont remarking that I was “by miles the best speaker of our generation” – a Cambridge Union generation that included six senior ministers in John Major’s government, not counting me as a cabinet minister in Dr. Manmohan Singh’s cabinet, chairing the India branch of the “Cambridge Mafia” (Stephen Parkinson “Arena of Ambition”, Icon Books, London, 2009, p.158).