The Spicer Diaries also detail the “brutal” battles over the Maastricht Treaty as the party split apart in guerrilla war in the Commons, the downfall of Mr Duncan Smith as leader, when Lord Spicer was sent forged letters calling for a vote of confidence, and the Commons expenses scandal of 2009 exposed by The Telegraph, in which Lord Spicer was accused of using taxpayer’s money to maintain a “helipad” at his Worcestershire home – a claim he denies.