Royalties from the novel written by Jeffrey Archer while he was in prison for perjury in 2003 would be confiscated under a new plan offered up by Conservative party members in Britain. As Tania Branigan notes in a Guardian report, “While their literary content might not match that of Gramsci‘s prison diaries or Oscar Wilde‘s Ballad of Reading Gaol, the best-known jail memoirs of recent years have been by disgraced Tories” such as Archer and Jonathan Aitken. So, ” The party has announced a plan to make it illegal for criminals to profit in any way from writing about their crimes or subsequent jail sentences.” Branigan notes that while he was in prison, Archer—whom the Conservatives may allow to return to the party—had his royalties for his Prison Diaries given to charity, but since his release payment has gone directly to the author.