Sir Alex Douglas Home, former Tory leader.
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Cabinet Those who have served in Margaret Cabinet since 1979 provide an interesting and atypical cross section of population They also big have ding abour inestions anquestion unemployment. Thes directors of the firms that created it in the first place.
Of Margare cher's 1979 Cabinet members, , per cent were company directors, 14 per cent large landowners, and 10 per cent lawyers with the categories of landowners company directors overlapping. of ihe Carringier. course later had ice= THE WISEST SAYING in law is 'who profits?'. That means if you want to find out who committed a The Tory Party in parliament and the constituencies may be only a small part of those who gained from Thatcherism and its policies, nevertheless it provides an interesting insight into who the labour Blair steel mills director of EMI, Sun London Assurance * Sir Keith Joseph former chair of the famil firm Bovis Holdings and then director of Drayton Premier Investment Trust * Francis Pym - managHol diay and Webb director George * Lord Carrington director of Barclays Bank.
Cadbury, Schweppes and Rio Tinto Zinc * James Prior - director United Biscuits Norwich Union Insurance * Michael Heseltine chair of the Haymarket Press director business backgrounds as executives, managers, bankers. stockbrokers or farmers. A further 1.4 per were small business.
The "professional' layers which made up the rest of the Tory MPs also character. Of those elected had a. definite overwhelmingly the largest group were lawyers comprised 21.3 per cent of all Tory • VIPS Apparatus Accountants formed 2.2 per cent, some 2.6 per cent were from the armed forces and diplomatic ser vices, per cent from the apparatus of the Torv Partv or employers organisations Nearly seven out of 10 of Tor MPs went to public schools, 14.7 per cent of these from Eton The in parliament govern. ment is totally dominated by company boards, , professions closley tied business such as accoun tancy and law, and some sections of the stale aD paratus such as the armed forces and diplomatic serTEETHE all constituency chairpersons of Conservative Associations were large m medium owners of Dusticss. • direc tors or executives. A further lo per cent were smal businessmen/women 9 per cent were farmers or landowners.
More than half of Conservative constituency chairpersons came directly from business or manage. ment occupations. A furper cent were lawyers or accountants.
ship of the Conservative the SHALON prevails. A 1964 survey indicated that 40 per cent of Conservative and 89 per cer cent of activists, of constituency chairper cons were made up employers, managers an 'higher professiona layers. Backbone Educationally the only major difference between Conservatives parlia nent senior peopte outside was a distinction conson.
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