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| | [A-List] Wilson plot: Leigh review, part 3 |
 | | One of these was Harold Wilson, appointed as a junior trade minister under Sir Stafford Cripps (who had been wartime UK ambassador to Moscow), and later his successor as President of the Board of Trade. |
 | | Disgraced former Labour Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse, in his memoirs "Death of an Idealist", published in 1975, wrote that when he, in a private business capacity, had consulted with Kleinwort Benson during the early 1970s, all the board could discuss over lunch was communist infiltration and leadership of UK trade unions. |
 | | The BBC's board of governors, chaired by Stuart Young (brother of Cabinet minister Lord David Young) with William Rees-Mogg as his deputy, instructed Director General Alasdair Milne to concede the case, thus discrediting the BBC's current affairs department and signalling an intensification of the full-scale assault by the Thatcher gang against the entire institution. |
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