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Authors: David Waddington
My father, on the left of his brother George, the school bully.
Pa, glad to be in uniform again as a member of the Home Guard in 1940.
My parents’ wedding at Habersham Church, Lancs.
In between my sisters (L to R: Ann, Mary, Zoe and Nancy).
Receiving the Stick from Field Marshal Sir William Slim.
Campaigning in Peterborough, 1948.
Our wedding – Preston, 20 December 1958.
Arriving at Westminster to take my seat in June 1968.
The family with Clitheroe castle in the background – taken during the Clitheroe by-election, February 1979.
The family on holiday in Devon, 1978 (L to R: James, Matthew, Victoria, Alistair, Gilly, Jennifer and I).
Basil with Victoria, me and Gilly.
Victorious at the Ribble Valley count in 1983.
One of the final photographs of Margaret Thatcher with her Cabinet (I’m front row, third from left).
Private Eye’
s satirical take on the Strangeways riots (signed by my office).