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How the SNP were able to become party of working-class voters

How the SNP were able to become party of working-class voters
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'She was as firm as she was fair': Rishi Sunak pays tribute to Betty Boothroyd who died aged 93

Baroness Boothroyd gained respect from both sides of the House for her charm and 'no-nonsense' style in the chair from 1992 to 2000.

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The poll-tax riots and the exhaustion of the left

The protests of the 1990s hold no answers for today’s cost-of-living crisis.

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Novelist, call girl, double agent: how Mariella Novotny was the link between JFK and Profumo

The Queen of 1960s London’s ‘permissive society’, Novotny mixed with statesmen, strippers and spies – then vanished
1 May 2021 • 5:00am
'I can rattle skeletons in many important cupboards': Mariella Novotny in 1971
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In the dying days of the 20th century I was researching the life of my grandfather, Charlie, a con man implicated in the corruption of Flying Squad officers. During his trial at the Old Bailey in 1978, Charlie alleged he had been set up by a mysterious blonde called Mariella Novotny, codenamed Henry. In court, he claimed: “She is the woman who arranged for the war minister Mr Profumo to be dropped from the cabinet. She gave evidence to the Lord Denning inquiry but that evidence never appeared.”

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