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4 unusual facts about Cecil Parkinson


Conservative Way Forward

Lord Parkinson PC, former Party Chairman and Trade and Industry Secretary

Elizabeth Buchanan

She was a spokeswoman for United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and a political adviser to Cecil Parkinson and Paul Channon at the Department of Transport.

Northaw

Its most famous resident is former cabinet minister Cecil Parkinson.

Severn Beach Line

Cecil Parkinson MP, then-Secretary of State for Transport, replied that the line was using "out-of-date, worn-out rolling stock" due to late deliveries from manufacturers, and that British Rail would not encourage people to use it until there was a better service.


Peter Lane, Baron Lane of Horsell

He was chairman of the executive of the National Union of the Conservative Party from 1986 and 1991 and had previously chaired the traumatic party conference in 1983 during which Cecil Parkinson resigned after his affair with Sara Keays had become public.


see also

Keays

Sara Keays (born 1947), English writer and former mistress of British Conservative politician Cecil Parkinson