Robin Harris

Robin Harris is an author and journalist. He served as special adviser at the Treasury (1981-83) and at the Home Office (1983-85) and was subsequently Director of the Conservative Research Department (1985-88) and a member of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit (1989-90). His recent publications include The Conservatives - A History (Bantam, 2011), Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher (Bantam, 2013). For Politeia he has authored Why Britain Needs a Foreign Policy (2004) and Criminal Negligence: How Current Policies Towards Crime, Policing and Punishment Fail the Nation (2003).