Cecil Parkinson

Geoffrey Howe.

Cecil Parkinson, Robert Maxwell, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Thatcher, Prince Philip, Paddy Ashdown, Michael Jackson, Dennis Healy, Nelson Mandela, Donald Sinden, Winston Churchill, Lester Piggott.

Do you remember Lester Piggott on Spitting Image? He was great.

They talked down his nose.

No, please.

Party conference, Margaret always had a few people to dinner at Chequers to celebrate her birthday, which came a couple of weeks after the party conference, and she called John Wakeham, Cecil Parkinson, Kenneth Baker, Alastair McAlpine, myself, and there was one other and I'm feeling guilty not remembering.

The six of us to dinner, and we were given our jobs for the election.

The purpose of the dinner was to tell us what we would be doing.

I was nice people that I was working with, but I had clients who didn't seem to know what they wanted, like Vauxhall Motors.

I said to them, well, what do you want the government to do? Is there any legislation you want abolished? Is there legislation you want brought in? You know, we just want to meet Cecil Parkinson, who was the Secretary of State.

And maybe you could organise for him to be photographed in our prototype electric car.

This is 1990.