Stephen Tall

The annual Waterstone’s ComRes survey of MPs’ summer reading choices has just been published. You can read about the overall responses here, but I had a quick scan of the findings of the 12 Lib Dem MPs who replied to see what our party folk are planning to dip into during the parliamentary recess…

• The Idea of Justice – Amartya Sen = 14%
• Harry Potter = 14%
• Darren Shaw [do they mean ‘Darren Shan‘?] = 14%
• Solar – Ian McEwan = 12%
• The Third Man – Peter Mandelson = 7%
• The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith = 7%
• De Gaulle – The Last Great Frenchman = 7%
• Philip II of Spain biography = 7%
• History of the Dominican Republic = 7%
• Alastair Campbell Diaries = 6%
• Collected Poems – R.S. Thomas = 5%
• Shirley Williams biography = 5%
• Paddy Ashdown biography = 5%

PS: I’ve no idea how the weighted percentages were calculated… so far as I can make out, any figure between 5-7% means one Lib Dem MP chose it; 12-14% means that two did.