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Article: Maggie's Men: her first cabinet in 1979
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- March 2, 2009
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LEFT TO RIGHT, STANDING:
Michael Jopiing, parliamentary secretary to the Treasury (chief whip), 1979-83, later agriculture secretary
Made a life peer in 1997, and father of BritArt super-dealer Jay Jopling. A grandee: Alan Clark claimed he dismissed Heseltine as a man who "bought all his own furniture".
Norman Fowler, transport secretary 1979-81, later social services secretary and then employment secretary
First minister to resign from the cabinet "to spend more time with my family" in 1990; later returned to spend more time with his colleagues as party chairman. Life peer, 2001; currently chairman of Lords communications committee.
John Biffen, chief secretary to the Treasury 1979-81. ...