Jeffrey Archer — English Politician born on April 15, 1940,

Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare is an English author and former politician. Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament, but resigned over a financial scandal which left him almost bankrupt. Later, after a revival of his fortunes from the royalties of his best-selling novels, he became deputy chairman of the Conservative Party before resigning after another scandal, which would lead to the end of his career in elected office. He was made a life peer in 1992. His political career ended with his conviction and subsequent imprisonment for perjury and perverting the course of justice, which followed his second resignation. His books have sold at least 250 million copies worldwide... (wikipedia)

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
What I have found is that real friends stand by you.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.