Trained at Mecas, the Foreign Office’s ‘spy school’ in the Lebanon, Lennox-Boyd was sympathetic to the aspirations of moderate Palestinians
Trained at Mecas, the Foreign Office’s ‘spy school’ in the Lebanon, Lennox-Boyd was sympathetic to the aspirations of moderate Palestinians
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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
Just before his sacking in 1976, he became the first Tory spokesman to attend the National Union of Mineworkers’ conference
The former prime minister has been let down more than most by his old Labour colleague
He resigned from Labour during the antisemitism row but after Sir Keir Starmer succeeded Jeremy Corbyn, contacts were…
Commuters balked at his casual proposal for ‘cheap and cheerful’ trains for typists and the like, and more luxurious ones for the…
He attacked the EEC as undemocratic, opposed the first Gulf War and opposed the imposition of a united Ireland
