Francis Beckett

Francis Beckett (born 12 May 1945) is an English author, journalist, biographer, playwright and contemporary historian. He has written biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. He has also written on education for the ''New Statesman'', ''The Guardian'' and ''The Independent ''and has been the editor of ''Third Age Matters'', the national magazine published by the University of the Third Age. Beckett has been described as "an Old Labour romantic" by ''Guardian'' associate editor Michael White. Provided by Wikipedia