Commuters balked at his casual proposal for ‘cheap and cheerful’ trains for typists and the like, and more luxurious ones for the better-off
Commuters balked at his casual proposal for ‘cheap and cheerful’ trains for typists and the like, and more luxurious ones for the better-off
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A farmer from Essex, he became a junior minister at Maff and was later one of the ‘saints’ in the parliamentary expenses scandal
Trained at Mecas, the Foreign Office’s ‘spy school’ in the Lebanon, Lennox-Boyd was sympathetic to the aspirations of moderate…
He reluctantly became chief executive of the nationalised British Shipbuilders under Labour, then returned as chairman under…
Just before his sacking in 1976, he became the first Tory spokesman to attend the National Union of Mineworkers’ conference
His fellow clerk at MI3 was Dennis Potter, who later lampooned him by inserting a recognisable Claydon character into his…
Olly Robbins gave MPs a classic civil servant’s performance – and there are lessons from the past about how ministers should…
