for an international oil company in London. Their daughter, Sasha, is a journalist married to the former MP for East Devon, Hugo Swire, Baron Swire, and published controversial diaries about life as a parliamentarian's wife in the early 21st century. He lives on his farm at St Erth in Cornwall. Books The title of Nott's autobiography Here Today, Gone Tomorrow is a reference to an interview conducted by Sir Robin Day in October 1982. Day described Nott, who had already announced or was shortly to announce that he would not stand at the next election, as "a transient, here-today and, if I may say so, gone-tomorrow politician." He asked whether the public should believe the MP's statements on defence cuts. Nott promptly stood up calling the interview "ridiculous", removed his microphone and walked off the set. Nott's second book, Mr Wonderful Takes a Cruise, was published in 2004. In 2007, he published a family history entitled Haven't We Been Here Before. In 2012, wrote the introduction to Stephen Tyrrell's Trewinnard – A Cornish History about his home in Cornwall. Nott's fourth book, Mr Wonderful Seeks Immortality, was published in 2014. In the media Nott was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory!. In popular culture Nott was portrayed by Clive Merrison in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis's controversial The Falklands Play. In the film The Iron Lady, Nott is played by Angus Wright. See also "Rejoice", a 1982 remark made by Margaret Thatcher following a statement read by Nott References Sources External links Thatcher's First Cabinet |- |- 1932 births Living people Politicians from Bideford People educated at Bradfield College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Presidents of the Cambridge Union Royal Gurkha Rifles officers British people of the Falklands War British Secretaries of State Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies English autobiographers English historians Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for St Ives Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Secretaries of State for Defence (UK) UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 John People from St Erth Presidents of the Board of Trade Royal Scots officers British Army personnel of the Malayan Emergency