Download or read book The Commissioner written by Stanley Johnson and published by Ulverscroft. This book was released on 1988 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite having the largest majority in Britain, it began to look as though James Morton's career as a rising Conservative star was on the wane. His American wife, restless & ambitious, had already found consolation within the opposition. Then Morton is nominated as the British member for the E.E.C. Commission in Brussels. But the arrival of a particular manila envelope in the late-evening mail, stamps a spectacular change on Morton's fortunes. From that moment on he would be fighting for his political & personal life