X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Keith Joseph


Economic and Social Research Council

In 1981, the Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph asked Lord Rothschild to lead a review into the future of the SSRC.

Gemma Hussey

During a meeting with Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher's Secretary of State for Education, Joeseph boasted to Hussey, that he held surgeries once a month, which was considered a high number in Britain.


Warwick Collins

Collins's political views were liberal and libertarian, but (in 1979) he was asked by Keith Joseph to join a Conservative party think tank chaired by John Hoskyns (who became Chief Political Adviser to Margaret Thatcher) to work on issues such as privatisation.


see also