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‘It was like being part of a conquering army,’ proclaimed Edwina Currie. The future Junior Minister of Health (1986–1988), with immaculate make-up and glistening red lips, positively glowed when, 23 years later, she recalled the Conservative election victory of 1983 (Tory, Tory, Tory programme 3 2006).1
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© 2013 Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell and Sherryl Wilson
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Holland, P., Chignell, H., Wilson, S. (2013). Griffiths, Peacock and Restructuring Public Service. In: Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313225_9
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