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23: John Major: From Brixton to Downing Street (Part 1)

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Blue Chips and the House of Commons

Rory Kinnock was part of a group of talented intake that came in with you. We were the same vintage and naturally gravitated together, he says. He talks about his time as Treasury Whip under Margaret Thatcher. But how did she embrace people like him? And would she have been suspicious of those who didn't share her views?

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