Robert Lambart Harvey (born 21 August 1953) is a British Conservative Party politician, journalist and well known historian and author.
Harvey was educated at Eton College and later at Christ Church, Oxford University where he obtained a BA in 1974 and MA in 1978.
[2] Harvey first stood for Parliament, unsuccessfully, at Caernarvon in October 1974, where he was beaten by the future leader of Plaid Cymru, Dafydd Wigley.
In 2007 he edited and introduced the book entitled The World Crisis: The Way Forward after Iraq with works by Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Geoffrey Howe, Michael Heseltine, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft, Sam Nunn, Dick Lugar as well as himself.
[4] The 2009 British film Endgame directed by Pete Travis is based upon Harvey's book The Fall of Apartheid: The Inside History from Smuts to Mbeki.