Christine Keeler votes Conservative. She would, wouldn't she? Having seen off the Macmillan Government in the 1960s, exposed the squalid underbelly of upper-class public life and fired the starting pistol to begin the sexual revolution by revealing that 'You've never had it so good' was actually 'You've never had it so often,' she reckons she knows what's what about the world of politics and power (though sex and men are not really her thing). She has nothing but contempt for Blair's New Labour: 'just a bunch of control freaks, just more ardent, more determined to bring in rules and take away our freedoms. What I have learned most is that those who would lead have agendas rather than feelings or emotions.'

LRB 22 March 2001 | PDF Download