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Cecil Parkinson – once groomed as Thatcher’s successor
Here’s the piece of paper that tells you how high in Margaret Thatcher’s estimation Cecil Parkinson had risen by 1983.
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In this week’s podcast we bring together two brothers – Charles Powell and Jonathan Powell.
Caroline Slocock has written about the final days of Mrs Thatcher’s premiership, which she witnessed as her private secretary, in her book ‘People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me’. Ayesha Hazarika is a Labour party adviser turned comedian, and Fraser Nelson is the editor of the Spectator.
Here’s the piece of paper that tells you how high in Margaret Thatcher’s estimation Cecil Parkinson had risen by 1983.
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