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Eric Lubbock: From Orpington Man to Buddhist Monk?
For a few astonishing days in March 1962, the Liberal Party led the Conservative and Labour parties in the opinion polls, the only time it had ever done so since polls were invented. Just a few months later Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sacked half his cabinet in his ‘night of the long knives’, prompting Jeremy Thorpe’s most famous comment – ‘greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life’.
Jeremy Thorpe interview
I carried out this interview with Duncan Brack for the Journal of Liberal History in 2000, at a time when Charles Kennedy was Liberal Democrat leader, William Hague was Conservative leader and Tony Blair was approaching his first general election since becoming Prime Minister in 1997. Jeremy Thorpe was elected as leader of the Liberal [...]
