Sara Keays book on Parkinson affair

Title

Sara Keays book on Parkinson affair

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

5 Nov 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:03:38

Description

Report on the publication of A Question of Judgement, by Sara Keays, former mistress and personal secretary to Conservative MP, Cecil Parkinson, whose public statement of her pregnancy and their affair led to his resignation as Trade and Industry Secretary in October 1983. Includes extracts from ITN interview with Keays, in which she criticises Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for not accepting Parkinson’s earlier offer to resign on polling day 1983. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

ITN; Sara Keays

Keywords

Books; Politics; Margaret Thatcher; Cecil Parkinson; Cabinet ministers; Resignation (political); Extra-marital sex; Political scandals; A Question of Judgement; Sara Keays

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