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Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.A career diplomat and political secretary to Prime Minister Edward Heath, Hurd first entered Parliament in February 1974 as MP for the Mid Oxfordshire constituency . His first government post was as Minister for Europe from 1979 to 1983 and he served in several Cabinet roles from 1984 onwards, including Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary . He stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party leadership in 1990, and retired from frontline politics during a Cabinet reshuffle in 1995.In 1997, Hurd was elevated to the House of Lords and is one of the Conservative Party's most senior elder statesmen. He is a patron of the Tory Reform Group. He retired from the Lords in 2016. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. March 1930
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Famous Douglas Hurd Quotes

“We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.”

Douglas Hurd

Speech in Berlin http://www.kas.de/grossbritannien/en/publications/6555/ (18 April 2005)

“People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics.”

Douglas Hurd

Interview with Rhian Harris about the Tories then and now http://www.cherwell.org/news/world/2008/05/15/douglas-hurd (15 May 2008)

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

Douglas Hurd

Hurd takes on prison reform trust http://www.independent.co.uk/news/hurd-takes-on-prison-reform-trust-1283200.html (15 January 1997)

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