The author of Would You Believe It? has trawled the voluminous pages of Hansard to produce a collection of utterances by politicians which in the course of time turned out to be wildly wrong or unintentionally amusing - and often both. Divided into topics such as motoring, votes for women, child labour, education and capital punishment, it contains such items as the objection to free education of Earl Fortescue in 1880. He complained that it took away a source of cheap labour for weeding, and that as a result the weeds have very much multiplied.