[16] In 1988 he played a leading role in mobilising young activists against pro-devolution dissidents at the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party conference in Perth, Scotland.

[17] Towards the end of Hungarian socialism, Hart channelled support from the West to the fledgling Fidesz party,[18] which at the time was an unofficial anti-Communist student movement developing at the Eötvös Loránd University under the protection of the last Communist minister of the interior, István Horváth.

[1][26] He was also involved in the 1995 plan to install 40 telephones and fax machines in a Lord North Street house for a Portillo leadership challenge to Conservative leader and prime minister John Major which never emerged.

[1] In 2007 The Guardian newspaper alleged Hart had received £13 million in secret payments from BAE,[29] via Defence Consultancy Ltd, an anonymously registered company based in the British Virgin Islands.

The book's most controversial feature was Stephen Sweet, who is referred to throughout by his driver as "The Jew", a vain and obsessive character allegedly based on Hart.

[citation needed] Hart himself wrote numerous plays, including Victoriana, The Little Rabbi, The Ark & the Covenant,[3] and two novels, The Colonel and Come to the Edge.

[1] Hart was the father of five children, three sons and two daughters, by four women;[2] the four mothers were Christina Williams (whom he married on 21 October 1976), Karen Weis, Hazel O'Leary, and Kate Agazarian.