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Article: IN THE FIRING LINE.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- January 1, 2000
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In the Firing Line. Brian Mawhinney. HarperCollins. [pounds]16.99. 270 pages. ISBN 0-00-274062-1.
Sir Brian Mawhinney was the victim of his dependability and occasional pugnacity in Government posts under Margaret Thatcher and his friend, John Major, of which the most important departmental one was Secretary of State for Transport. For Major awarded him the presidency of a lost cause. Mawhinney was made Conservative Party chairman in the last phase of a Government debilitated by weariness, divided over Europe, and harassed by media quests for financial and sexual scandals.
The book's title may not be quite right. As Tory chairman in 1995-97 Dr Mawhinney ...