A farmer from Essex, he became a junior minister at Maff and was later one of the ‘saints’ in the parliamentary expenses scandal
A farmer from Essex, he became a junior minister at Maff and was later one of the ‘saints’ in the parliamentary expenses scandal
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Trained at Mecas, the Foreign Office’s ‘spy school’ in the Lebanon, Lennox-Boyd was sympathetic to the aspirations of moderate…
Just before his sacking in 1976, he became the first Tory spokesman to attend the National Union of Mineworkers’ conference
He was nearly killed by the Brighton bomb, and his wife was left paralysed. He cared for her devotedly, waking twice each night…
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
He served as a minister in both the Blair and Brown governments
