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S3, Ep2 How to Fail: Chris Patten

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Untrue Story of a Minister Who Lost His Seat

I think I was left in Bath not much wanting to go back there and I had some wonderful friends and some people who'd worked for me very hard. And is it true that everything is stripped away from you quite rapidly all the ministerial privileges all the private drivers your high school and past? It also happened in another way when I hadn't lost a seat but when I came back having been governor of Hong Kong for five years with daimlers and Rolls Royces and yachts and so on. They were surprised they remember somebody saying oh I thought they sent cars for people like you but as a minister there's a untrue story of anecdotes about a minister who after he'd lost his

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