Memoirs: Dispatches from Margaret Thatcher's Last Home Secretary

Memoirs: Dispatches from Margaret Thatcher's Last Home Secretary

David Waddington
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Author:  David Waddington
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  347
Publisher:  Biteback Publishing
Year:  2012
ISBN:  9781849543194

David Waddington, Baron Waddington, was a Conservative MP from 1968 to 1990, before becoming a life peer. For over twenty years he was a government Chief Whip, then served in the Cabinet as Home Secretary from 1989 to 1990 and Leader of the House of Lords from 1990 to 1992. A junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Employment, Minister of State at the Home Office and Chief Whip from 1987 until his elevation to Cabinet level, becoming Home Secretary in 1989. In 1990 he was created a life peer as Baron Waddington, of Read in the County of Lancashire. He served as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords until 1992. He served as Governor of Bermuda 1992 - 1997. This book contains the fascinating reflections of a man who spent his career at the heart of power.

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