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Message: [QUOTE="ex_colonial, post: 10412784, member: 51765"] My bold especially as he allows his politics to colour his views of history, from Wike ... "[I]He won admission in 1967 to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London']University College London[/URL], where he studied philosophy and[B] became involved in centre-left politics"[/B][/I] & "[I]He has also donated £25,000 to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Cooper']Yvette Cooper[/URL] campaign [B]in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Labour_Party_(UK)_leadership_election']2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election[/URL],[/B][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Follett#cite_note-23'][23][/URL] as well as another £25,000 from his wife [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Follett_(politician)']Barbara Follett[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Follett#cite_note-24'][[/URL] [B]Follett became involved, during the late 1970s, in the activities of Britain's [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)']Labour Party[/URL].[/B] In the course of his political activities, he met [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Follett_(politician)']Barbara Broer[/URL], a Labour Party official,[B] who became his second wife in 1984. She was elected as a Member of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom']Parliament[/URL] in 1997, representing Stevenage. She was re-elected in both 2001 and 2005, [/B]but did not stand in the 2010 general election.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Follett#cite_note-news.bbc.co.uk-30'][30][/URL] [B]Follett himself remains a prominent Labour supporter and fundraiser as well as a prominent [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blairite']Blairite[/URL]. In 2010, he was the largest donor to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Balls']Ed Balls[/URL]'s campaign to become leader of the Labour Party"[/B][/I] [/QUOTE]

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