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    Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, PC, QC (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015), known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British...
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    Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Alexandra and Tony Blair. Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, was also in attendance and said of his former leader:...
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    minister Geoffrey Howe resigned, issuing a fiercely critical broadside against Thatcher in the House of Commons on 13 November. The day after Howe's speech...
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    in many capacities in public life. As the widow of Geoffrey Howe, she was formerly known as Lady Howe of Aberavon before receiving a peerage in her own...
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  • Fleet Geoffrey Howe (1926–2015), later Baron Howe of Aberavon, the longest-serving British cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher Lord Howe Island...
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    Eurosceptic views and confrontational approach in Parliament. Following Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech in November 1990, Heseltine challenged Thatcher...
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    attacked by the mild-mannered Sir Geoffrey Howe in the House of Commons to being "savaged by a dead sheep". Nevertheless, Howe appeared and paid warm tribute...
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  • Hailsham of St Marylebone – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain Sir Geoffrey Howe – Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Carrington, 6th Baron Carrington...
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    Brazier includes Geoffrey Howe. However, Norton does not in his, explaining that Buckingham Palace took issue with appointing Howe "Deputy Prime Minister"...
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    David Owen, three former Chancellors of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson, former Home Secretary Merlyn Rees, Francis Maude,...
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    1983, Lawson was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, succeeding Geoffrey Howe. The early years of Lawson's chancellorship were associated with tax...
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  • Denis. Thatcher's longest-serving cabinet member and eventual deputy, Geoffrey Howe, is portrayed by Anthony Head. Despite the film's mixed reception, Streep's...
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  • decline" was also used in private advice to Margaret Thatcher from Geoffrey Howe with regards avoiding investment in Liverpool after the 1981 Toxteth...
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  • as James Hewitt, Princess Diana's lover Lin Sagovsky as Elspeth Howe, Geoffrey Howe's wife, who is Camilla's aunt Annette Badland as Dr Margaret Heagarty...
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    shadow chancellors include Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Edward Heath, Geoffrey Howe, Kenneth Clarke, Gordon Brown, John McDonnell and Rachel Reeves. The...
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  • ballot, Fraser withdrew. Heath resigned, but another ballot was needed: Geoffrey Howe, Shadow Secretary of State for Social Services, Member of Parliament...
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    Representative Geoffrey Dickens, British politician Geoffrey Howe (1926–2015), British Conservative politician and Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Mutiwa, Ugandan...
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  • Parliament for the safe Conservative seat of East Surrey, succeeding Geoffrey Howe. He remained a Wandsworth councillor until 1994. In 1994, Ainsworth...
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  • for its largely successor seat after boundary changes, Croydon South. Geoffrey Howe succeeded him in the East Surrey seat when boundary changes meant he...
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    2008, Cameron asked Lamont, together with fellow former chancellors Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and Kenneth Clarke, to provide him with strategic political...
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    Marshall McLuhan and Galen Strawson, Conservative cabinet minister Geoffrey Howe, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, writer J. B. Priestley, and...
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    chancellors have opted for whisky (Kenneth Clarke), gin and tonic (Geoffrey Howe), brandy and water (Benjamin Disraeli and John Major), spritzer (Nigel...
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  • plans for further integration, prompting her longest serving minister Geoffrey Howe to resign. Immediately following his resignation, Heseltine challenged...
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    July 1989. In the small reshuffle following the resignation of Sir Geoffrey Howe, he was made Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the...
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    the Foreign Office, he served first under Francis Pym and then Sir Geoffrey Howe. Rifkind was responsible for Britain's relations with the Soviet Union...
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    Party; Stafford Cripps and Hugh Gaitskell for the Labour Party; and Geoffrey Howe and Rishi Sunak for the Conservative Party. Of these, Addington and...
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    in Rome. Her remarks led to the resignation of deputy prime minister Geoffrey Howe and the ensuing Conservative Party leadership election in which Thatcher...
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    series of Hotel Babylon, playing hotel owner Donovan Credo, and as Geoffrey Howe in 2009's Margaret. In 2010, he played Kenny Prince in Sherlock. Sessions...
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    Will's Father Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Benedict The Iron Lady Geoffrey Howe 2013 Underdogs Adult Flash Voice Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Chiron...
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    events which would spell the end of Margaret Thatcher's years in power. Geoffrey Howe, the Deputy Prime Minister, long resentful of being ousted as Foreign...
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