Also shortlisted were contributions from actor Richard E Grant, US prosecutor Kenneth Starr for theStarrReport and former Home Secretary, Lord Hurd, who this year chaired the judging panel of the Booker Prize.
In the House Judiciary Committee a panel of distinguished former Federal prosecutors testified that a responsible Federal prosecutor would not have brought a criminal prosecution on the basis of the case set out in theStarrReport on which the House Judiciary Committee relied.