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- From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Subject: Re: The Maastricht vote (was Re: Dog in House of Parliament)
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:57:24 GMT
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- In article <7176@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk>, martin@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Martin Gorman) writes:
- |> [re replacement PMs]
- |>
- |> >Yes, but who? There's no obvious Thatcherite candidate waiting
- |> >in the wings.
- |> >
- |> I can think of two quite mind-boggling outsiders: Jeffrey Archer and
- |> Cecil Parkinson. Or are they both lords now? That's even more mind
- |> boggling. Does being a peer and eligable for the house of lords
- |> automatically stop you being a prime minister?
-
- There's nothing to stop a peer from being prime minister, though the
- only such candidates I can remember in recent times (Home in '63 and
- Hogg whenever it was that he wanted to take over the Tory party while
- in opposition) both resigned their peerages. It's apparently felt
- that it would be bad form to have a PM in the Lords.
-
- |> How about Richard Branson for the next amatuer to slime up the ladder?
-
- A likely story - does he have any political ambition, anyway?
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- Robin (come back John Drummond) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
- U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
- "They had twelve years to lay in wait for us" - Bush supporter on Nov 4
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