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The daughter of a Father of Chapel in the National Union of Print Workers, she is member of the old school of Socialism. She joined the Young Socialists at 16, then, at 18, whilst studying medicine at Lancaster University, the NUS and the Labour Party. She served as a hospital doctor until she entered Parliament as MP for Manchester Trafford in March 1974. In October 1974 she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Treddar Jones. During her time as a doctor she was a regular on the Aldermaston Marches and spent time at the camp on Greenham Common. She is an avid protagonist of non-violence.
Upper class and very bright – a top civil servant
Married to Daisy, 3 Children
- Edgar 35 (Minister for Prisons),
- Peter 32 (Commander of Garrison in Maratusse) and
- Angela Buxton 27, (Solicitor). Lives in Guildford.
Permanent Secretary (Foreign Office) since 1973. Educated at Eton and Kings College Cambridge, where he got a double first in Italian and Classics. He joined the Army straight from College in 1941, serving with distinction in Africa. He won the Military Cross at Tobruk. After the war, in 1945 and at the age of 25, he entered the Civil Service from the Army, on the fast track. He rose rapidly:
1945 – 49 Foreign Office, rose from Executive Office to Principal
1949 – 58 Ministry of Agriculture, rose to Assistant Secretary
1958 – 68 Home Office, rose to Deputy Secretary
1968 - 70 Under Secretary at Minister of Education
1970 – pres. Foreign Office Permanent Secretary
He has been Foreign Secretary for 14 months. He was appointed to the post when Labour won the General Election in March 1974. At that election he held the Rhondda Valley with a majority of 24,843 over the Welsh Nationalist. He is from the old Labour school, having been a miner and a shop steward. Welsh Old Labour – bit of a letch He was first elected to Parliament in 1935, and has served there continuously ever since. His political career is:
1936 – 37 Junior Health Minister in the government of Ramsey McDonald,
1941 – 45 Junior Health Minister in Churchill’s wartime coalition.
1945 – 47 Junior Trade Minister under Attlee
1947 – 51 First Secretary to the Treasury under Attlee
1952 – 55 Shadow Chief Secretary under Gaitskell
1955 – 59 Shadow Leader of the House under Gaitskell
1959 – 62 Shadow Minister of Health under Gaitskell
1962 fought leadership election came poor third to William Harmon
1962 – 64 back-benches
1964 – 66 Minister of Health, under William Harmon, first Cabinet post
1966 – 70 Minister of Education, under Harmon
1970 – 78 Shadow Foreign Secretary
Works in the Foreign Office team as Minister of State for non-European Affairs. Considered to be a rising star in the party, widely tipped to get a Cabinet post in the pending reshuffle. Entered Parliament as MP for Watford East in 1966, taking the seat from the Conservatives, having fought and lost the same seat in 1964. Lost the seat in 1970, but was re-elected to Parliament in 1974 for the safe seat of Leeds Central. A moderate, coming to Labour from the professions, Lyndsay is a qualified teacher, who reached the level of Head of Department (in History) prior to becoming an MP. Typical politically correct teacher turned politician.
Parliamentary career is:
1966 – 1969 Parliamentary Private Secretary to Douglas Joy at the Home Office
1969 – 1970 Junior Minister at Education
1974 - 1976 Junior Trade Minister
1976 - present Minister of State for non-European Affairs
Personal Private Secretary (PPS) to Treddar Jones. A career civil servant, who joined, straight from University, at the age of 22. She graduated from Christ’s College, Oxford with honours in French. She spent 10 years in the Diplomatic Corp, with tours of duty in France and the French Congo. She met her present husband Julian Bateman, a diamond dealer, in the Congo. They married in 1968. At that point she left the Diplomatic service, transferring to the Foreign Office. She rose to the grade of Assistant Secretary in 1973 and was appointed PPS to the Foreign Secretary in 1974. She lives with her husband in Compton, a village just outside Guildford. They have no children.
Labour Party researcher who lives with her parents in Poole, Dorset. She is single and very much the partygoer. She has had a string of famous boyfriends, one of which was Piers Leonard, a playboy and son of the Labour peer Lord Leonard of Roxburgh. Piers took her to a one of his father’s parties in their town house in Hanover Square. There she first met Treddar Jones, who gave her a job as his researcher. Prior to that Vikki, who graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in Psychology, did some fashion modelling.