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Article: Comment: Cow one; Hogg nil Profile - Douglas Hogg
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- February 16, 1997
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SEVENTY FIVE years ago a Tory Prime Minister was in trouble in
the House of Commons. Andrew Bonar Law had just formed the "Who,
Who?" Government, so called because no one had heard of most of its
members. It was full of obscure peers, but weak in the Lower House.
Rescue was at hand, however. You no longer need to worry about the
Commons, the PM was told; we have found a chap called Pig.
The chap in question was Sir Douglas Hogg, later the First
Viscount Hailsham and grandfather of the current Douglas Hogg. Once
again, a Tory premier is in trouble in the Commons, but this time
Douglas Hogg will not be a rescuer, but a liability: on Monday the
Commons will debate a Labour motion of censure ...