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Há 1 dia · One example of this is the term ‘economic sovereignty’, as popularised by Sir Leon Brittan. When the West German Bundesbank raised its interest rates in October 1989, the Chancellor of the Exchequer raised British interest rates less than half an hour later.
Há 2 dias · Spitting Image is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. First broadcast in 1984, the series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV network. The series was nominated and won numerous awards ...
Há 19 horas · His successor, Rishi Sunak, served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022 and has served as Prime Minister since 2022, whilst Hague's predecessor, Leon Brittan, served as Home Secretary. The constituency thus produced three consecutive MPs who served in the Great Offices of State, two of whom served as Leader of the Conservative Party.
11 de mai. de 2024 · Beech accused Lord Leon Brittan, a home secretary in Margaret Thatcher’s government in the 1980s, of also attending the group’s abuse parties. So depraved was Brittan’s alleged behavior that the Labour M.P. Tom Watson referred to Brittan as “close to evil.”
19 de mai. de 2024 · In 1986, Jewish MP Leon Brittan included a new law against “incitement to racial hatred” in a bill that was not intended to address racial issues, but rather public order. This was an urgent issue at the time, so Brittan knew that the Public Order Act (1986) would face little
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Há 5 dias · Leon Brittan succeeded John Biffen as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Norman St John-Stevas resigned as Minister for the Arts. His successor was not in the Cabinet.
25 de mai. de 2024 · The centenary of this was marked by the largest percentage of the Conservative vote in any constituency in the country, when the then Conservative MP and Foreign Secretary, William Hague received 62.8% of the vote. Before that, Leon Brittan had held the constituency since 1983, becoming Home Secretary shortly afterwards.
