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3 unusual facts about Woodrow Wyatt


Woodrow Wyatt

During the Cabinet Mission to India in 1946 he served as an informal liaison officer between the Mission and the Muslim League.

After ceasing to be an active politician, he was appointed by Roy Jenkins as Chairman of the Horserace Totalisator Board from 1976–1997.

For the last 20 years of his life, he was chairman of the state betting organisation The Tote.


The Downing Street Years

Thatcher's close friend Woodrow Wyatt recounted in his diary on 3 February 1989 a conversation he had with Rupert Murdoch who wanted Thatcher to write her equivalent of Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika, explaining her philosophy and that John O'Sullivan could do all the "donkey work" for her.


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