Yates dishes the dirt in memoir despite clean-up operation by lawyers

Cabinet minister turned radio personality Ivan Yates quipped that his biography was still a good read despite lawyers insisting 10,000 of its most biting words be taken out.

Launching the memoir, Full On, which chronicles an at times difficult childhood, a colourful political career, and a turbulent business life that ended in bankruptcy, the Newstalk Breakfast co-host said: ‘If anyone’s reputation is most destroyed, I think it’s myself.’

Broadcaster Pat Kenny described the book as a cross between “Dallas and Dynasty, with a bit of House of Cards thrown in, and a lot of Love/Hate”.