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Churchill's Skin in the Game
As home secretary, Churchill visited prisons and talked to prisoners alone. He introduced administrative changes that dramatically improved the conditions of British prisons. A year later, he experienced a rare physical attack when an Ulster MP threw a book at him in the Commons. Paul Johnson argues that a minister with first-hand experience is more valuable than one who only reads reports.