I had the honour of meeting John Biffen, then Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons, member of Margaret Thatcher's cabinet, currently the Rt. Hon. the Lord Biffen, a number of times back in the mid-1980s when I worked in the House of Commons. He was personable, witty, and, after decades in office in the House of Commons, full of stories and tales to tell. Indeed, when Biffen left the Cabinet, he was invited by publishers to write a tell-all book that surely would have sold well for a brief spell while journalists picked over the details of Biffen's recounting, but which would ...
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