biography
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Clark, Alan (Kenneth McKenzie)
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| lived:
| (1928–99)
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| biography:
| British politician, military historian, and diarist. He studied at Oxford and was called to the bar in 1955. He was elected Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton (1974–92) and brought into government by Mrs Thatcher where he held posts at employment (1983–6), trade (1986–9), and defence (1989–92). He was involved in the arms sales to Iraq affair, contravening a UN embargo, during the Iran-Iraq war (1980–8), and was criticized in the Scott Report which censured the government for its handling of the Matrix Churchill affair. He left parliament before the 1992 general election but returned in 1997 as MP for Kensington and Chelsea. |
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