Farewell to a fair politician

 
20 November 2013

BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten and former minister Sir Peter Bottomley read lessons at Farm Street Jesuit Church in Mount Street at a Thanksgiving Mass for former minister Barney Hayhoe. Other Tory grandees included Lords Goodlad and MacGregor, two former Chancellors, Howe and Lamont, and former Lib-Dem leader Lord Owen.

Lord Hayhoe’s barrister son Crispin told how his father had a disarmingly honest approach to politics. “He once went for an interview with a selection committee and afterwards asked one of his rivals, Christopher Chataway, whether he’d like to know what the questions were,” said Crispin in his eulogy. “Chataway said ‘Yes, please’, and he won the seat.”

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