Robin Oakley refreshingly keeps his own biographical details to a minimum and instead gives us a glimpse into the opportunities and pitfalls of his life as a newspaper journalist and later with the BBC as political editor.

Inside Track gives a fly on the wall view of the political lives of Prime Ministers from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, and their often tense relationships with their cabinet colleagues, spin-doctors and journalists. Politicians from other parties cannot escape either as Robin Oakeley disects their problems with his own critical examination .

Inside Track is a very readable book written in a style free from political leanings to either the left or the right and, as such, retains the reader's interest from start to finish.