Jonathan Aitken

This article is about the British politician. For the Canadian ice hockey player, see Johnathan Aitken .

Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born August 30, 1942 in Dublin ) is a former British politician and was a member of the Conservative Party . He was in the 1974 British House of Commons elected in 1992 Secretary of Defense and in 1994 Chief Secretary of the Treasury (Chief Secretary to the Treasury ) in the cabinet of John Major .

He resigned from this position in 1995, lost his seat in parliament in the 1997 general election and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for perjury and perversion in 1999 , seven months of which he served in prison. Trigger the previous corruption - affair was the television documentary Jonathan of Arabia of the investigative journalist David Leigh of 1995. From its position in the Privy Council , which he joined in 1994, he retired in 1997 from voluntary. Since 2004 he has been a member of the UK Independence Party .

Jonathan Aitken's father, William Aitken, was also a British MP from 1950 to 1965. His sister is the Irish actress Maria Aitken . He has four children, including twin daughters and a son, and an illegitimate daughter (Petrina Khashoggi) with the former wife of the arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi .

Fonts

• with Michael Beloff: A short walk on the campus . Secker & Warburg, London 1966 and Atheneum, New York 1966.
• The young meteors . With photographs by Iain MacMillan . Secker & Warburg, London 1967 and Atheneum, New York 1967.
• Land of fortune: a study of the new Australia . Secker & Warburg, London 1971. ISBN 0-436-01002-X . Or. Atheneum, New York 1971.
• Officially secret . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1971. ISBN 0-297-00373-9 .
• Nixon, a life . Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC and Lanham, MD 1993. ISBN 0-89526-489-7 . Or. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1993.
• Charles W. Colson: a life redeemed . Waterbook Press, New York 2005. ISBN 0-385-50811-5 .
• Porridge and passion . Continuum, London and New York 2005. ISBN 0-8264-7630-9 .
• Heroes and contemporaries . Continuum, London and New York 2006. ISBN 0-8264-7833-6 and ISBN 0-8264-9441-2, respectively .
• John Newton: from disgrace to Amazing grace . Foreword by Philip Yancey. Continuum, London and New York 2007. ISBN 978-0-8264-9384-2 . ISBN 0-8264-9384-X . ISBN 0-8264-9383-1 . Also as an audio book in CD form at Crossway Audio, Wheaton, IL 2007. ISBN 978-1-4335-0141-8 or ISBN 1-4335-0141-4 .
• Prayers for people under pressure . Crossway Books, Wheaton, Ill. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4335-0131-9 .
• Nazarbayev and the making of Kazakhstan . Continuum, London and New York 2009. ISBN 978-1-4411-5381-4 . ISBN 1-4411-5381-0 .
• Kazakhstan Surprises and Stereotypes After 20 Years of Independence . Continuum Intl Pub Group, New York, NY 2012. ISBN 978-1-4411-1654-3 and ISBN 1-4411-1654-0, respectively .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jonathan Aitken . Short biography in: Der Spiegel , July 5, 1999, accessed on November 2, 2011.
2. ↑ Ralf Sotscheck : Avenger or Researcher? , In: Taz , September 1, 2011, accessed November 2, 2011.
3. ↑ Article in The Telegraph
4. ↑ Article in The Guardian