Sussex is guaranteed to get at least four new MPs after voters go to the polls in the upcoming general election.
Subsequently he served Mr John Biffen, Secretary of State in the same department. In April 1981 he was promoted to Assistant Secretary and assigned to the team under Sir Derek Rayner which ...
He concluded by quoting former Cabinet Minister John Biffen: "As former Cabinet Minister John Biffen appropriately put it: 'In politics I think it is wiser to leave five minutes too soon than to ...
She is well-documented to have clashed with Baroness Thatcher, with Conservative grandee John Biffen once describing the two women as being like “wasps in a jam jar”. One of the baroness’s ...
But the following year, John Biffen, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, announced to Cabinet that he intended singling out Scotland for additional cuts of £150m annually over the next three years.
HUMPHRYS: So you disagree with John Biffen then. He said that was a remarkably successful brain-storming exercise, and the implication of what he said was pretty obvious. HESELTINE: Well ...
During her time there she was recruited by a friend to partner the self-confessedly “monkish” future Tory politician John Biffen to a Cambridge May Ball – an occasion he remembered ...
Halfway through Now More Than Ever, John Early’s June 2023 HBO special that mixes stand-up with live-band covers and behind-the-scenes sketches, Early and his band, the Lemon Squares ...
“As former Cabinet Minister John Biffen appropriately put it: ‘In politics I think it is wiser to leave five minutes too soon than to continue for five years too long.’” Mr Loughton said ...
“As former Cabinet Minister John Biffen appropriately put it: ‘In politics I think it is wiser to leave five minutes too soon than to continue for five years too long’.” ...
And she’s a feminist – but not a tiresome feminist.” She is well-documented to have clashed with Baroness Thatcher, with Conservative grandee John Biffen once describing the two women as being like ...
John Biffen. He was in Whitehall in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher swept in. 'I worked for Nott after the revolution, after the arrival of Thatcherism. It was a very exciting time.' Soon the buzz gave ...