Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch described Archer’s death as “devastating news”.<\/p>\n
“We will miss him very much,” she told BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, adding that he had texted her earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n
Badenoch said he was “very much loved by the Conservative family”, adding: “I’m glad that I saw him recently.”<\/p>\n
Speaking about what she described as “other parts of his life”, she said: “He did serve his time, he made amends, and he wanted to do a lot of good in the world.”<\/p>\n
Former Conservative prime minister Sir John Major said “we have lost a man who lived one of the most remarkable lives of our age”, and that he will be “much missed \u2013 and long remembered”.<\/p>\n
Archer’s last novel, Adam and Eve, was released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth told BBC Breakfast that he was with Archer on Sunday. “I mean, literally 72 hours ago, doing a show in the West End of London celebrating this book, the publication, and he was in great form.<\/p>\n
“He didn’t really acknowledge that he’d changed much since being in prison, but I think he became a nicer person in some ways, a gentler, a milder person after the prison experience.”<\/p>\n
Former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith described Archer as “a remarkable man who did everything at full bore”, adding: “There were simply no half measures with him.”<\/p>\n
Other former ministers also paid tribute. Sajid Javid said Archer had been a “dear friend”, while Sir Jeremy Hunt said Archer had “showed enormous kindness with his advice about how to become a writer”.<\/p>\n
James Cleverly said the author and politician had been “a huge personality and fantastic storyteller”, and that he had been very supportive when his wife Suzie was recovering from cancer.<\/p>\n
Reform UK member and former Conservative minister Nadim Zahawi, wrote: “Jeffrey Archer was a dear friend and an extraordinary human being. His gift for storytelling was matched by his wit, warmth and boundless energy. Life was never dull in Jeffrey’s company.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch described Archer’s death as “devastating news”. “We will miss him very much,” she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-366662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}