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  • UBP (United Bermuda Party)
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  • UN Decolonisation Committee
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  • unemployment
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  • Vander Weyer, Martin
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  • Victoria and Albert Museum
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  • visitor visas
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  • VOCA (Vocal and Orchestral Concert Association)
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  • Waddington, Alistair (son of DW)
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  • Waddington, Ann (sister of DW)
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  • Waddington, Charlie (father of DW)
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  • Waddington, David and acting
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    • army career of
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    • assaulted at Manchester University
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    • and the Bar
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    • at Beloit Iron Works
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    • birth of
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    • birth of children
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    • and Brighton bombing
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    • as Chief Whip
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    • childhood of
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    • and Clitheroe seat
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    • death threats against
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    • at Department of Employment
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    • education of
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    • engagement to Gill
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    • faith of
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    • and Farnworth seat
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    • and golf
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    • appointed Governor of Bermuda
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    • health of
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    • and Heywood & Royton seat
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    • appointed Home Secretary
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    • and Kiszko trial
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    • awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
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    • appointed Leader of the House of Lords
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    • leaves Bermuda
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    • marriage to Gill
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    • and ministerial oath
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    • and music
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    • and Nelson & Colne seat
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    • at Oxford University
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    • as Parliamentary Private Secretary
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    • political interest of
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    • and Pope John Paul II
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    • as President of OUCA
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    • and Privy Council
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    • and public speaking
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    • and Queen’s Counsel
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    • and race relations legislation
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    • racism allegations against
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    • and Ribble Valley seat
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    • and rowing
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    • and scout movement
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    • and South Fylde seat
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    • and speechwriting
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    • and Strangeways Prison riot
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    • trip to Australia
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    • trips to France
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    • trip to Hong Kong
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    • trip to North Africa
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    • trip to subcontinent
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    • trip to Usa
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    • voluntary work
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    • and ‘year in the life’ film
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  • Waddington, Gill (wife of DW)
    • and 1968 by-election
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    • at art college
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    • and Basil (Norfolk Terrier)
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    • birth of children
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    • and Brighton bombing
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    • and Carlton Club
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    • charity work (Bermuda)
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    • and Countess Spencer
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    • death of Father
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    • and DW’s appointment as Governor of Bermuda
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    • and DW’s appointment as Home Secretary
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    • and DW’s appointment as Leader of the House of Lords
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    • and Edward Heath
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    • and Edward Kennedy
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    • engagement to DW
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    • and formal dinners
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    • and gardening
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    • and Harrods
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    • health of
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    • and Hurricane Felix
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    • marriage to DW
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    • and Mental Health Foundation
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    • and politics
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    • and Queen’s visit to Bermuda
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    • receives threatening phone calls
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    • and Samaritans
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    • and SANE
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    • school reports
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    • at sister’s wedding
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    • and Stan Iveson
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    • and Sydney (poodle)
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    • trip to Australia
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    • trip to Hong Kong
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    • trip to subcontinent
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    • and ‘year in the life’ film
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  • Waddington, James (son of DW)
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  • Waddington, Jenny (daughter of DW)
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  • Waddington, Mary (sister of DW)
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  • Waddington, Matthew (son of DW)
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  • Waddington, Nancy (sister of DW)
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  • Waddington, Victoria (daughter of DW)
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  • Waddington, Zoe (sister of DW)
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  • Wade, Freddy
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  • Wade, Lord Oulton
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  • Wade-Gery, Robert
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  • Wade-Gery, Sally
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  • Wakeham, John
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  • Wakeham, Roberta
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  • Walder, David
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  • Wallington, Hubert
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  • Walters, Alan
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  • WAR (We Are Responsible) programme
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  • War Crimes Bill
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  • Watson, Paul
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  • Weatherill, Jack
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  • Webb, Sidney
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  • Welch, Colin
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  • Welsh devolution
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  • Westminster Palace
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  • ‘Westwood’ (house)
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  • Wheeler, Geoffrey
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  • Whips Office
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  • Whitelaw, Celia
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  • Whitelaw, Willie
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  • Whitmore, Clive
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  • Wilkinson, David
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  • Wilkinson, Edgar
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  • Wilkinson, John
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  • Willis, Peter
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  • Wilson, Harold
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  • ‘winter of discontent’
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  • Wolstenhome, John
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  • Woolcock, Peter
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  • Woolridge, Jim
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  • Woolton, Lord
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  • work permits
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  • World Summit on Drugs
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  • WOSB (War Office Selection Board)
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  • Wyatt, Woodrow
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  • Young, Janet
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  • Young, Sir John
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  • Zimbabwe
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My father, on the left of his brother George, the school bully.

Pa, glad to be in uniform again as a member of the Home Guard in 1940.

My parents’ wedding at Habersham Church, Lancs.

In between my sisters (L to R: Ann, Mary, Zoe and Nancy).

Receiving the Stick from Field Marshal Sir William Slim.

Campaigning in Peterborough, 1948.

Our wedding – Preston, 20 December 1958.

Arriving at Westminster to take my seat in June 1968.
 

The family with Clitheroe castle in the background – taken during the Clitheroe by-election, February 1979.

The family on holiday in Devon, 1978 (L to R: James, Matthew, Victoria, Alistair, Gilly, Jennifer and I).

Basil with Victoria, me and Gilly.

Victorious at the Ribble Valley count in 1983.

One of the final photographs of Margaret Thatcher with her Cabinet (I’m front row, third from left).

Private Eye’
s satirical take on the Strangeways riots (signed by my office).

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