Wes Streeting

Vladimir Putin's dog approaches Angela Merkel at a meeting in Sochi,  January 2007. It was well known that the German Chancellor was frightened of dogs.

What memoir writer Nicola Sturgeon can learn from Angela Merkel's doorstopper
Angela Merkel's Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 is published this week by Pan Macmillan, which is also behind Nicola Sturgeon’s autobiography due in August next year. Might the ex-First Minister of Scotland be able to pick up a few tips from the former Chancellor of Germany? Reviewers will hope she doesn’t follow Merkel's example when it comes to word count. At more than 700 pages, the Merkel memoir is one of the more heavyweight offerings from political leaders in recent years.

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