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from May 1979 to 14 September 1981. Thatcher said of their relationship, "we agreed that trade unions had acquired far too many powers and privileges. We also agreed that these must be dealt with one step at a time. But when it came down to specific measures, there was deep disagreement about how
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During his period in the Cabinet, he is believed to have angered the right wing of his party and the Prime Minister for not pressing far enough with anti-trade union legislation. In the September 1981
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between 1997 and 2001, and was appointed Parliamentary-Under Secretary of State for NHS Productivity; he was later, in May 2015, elevated to the peerage in his own right as Baron Prior of Brampton.
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to the back benches to oppose the Thatcher Government's economic policies. However, Prior ultimately decided to accept being moved to the Northern Ireland Office after consulting cabinet colleagues
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MP said of him: "In many ways he was a larger than life figure. He had a ruddy face, he played up to being the farmer. People underestimated him because he didn't claim to be a
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parading their intellectualism. But he was somebody who was well-loved by the grassroots and was a decent man who was in politics out of a sense of public service."
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from 1979 to 1981, disagreeing with some of her views on trade unions and her monetarist economic policies generally. This made him a leader of the so-called
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Following his retirement from politics he was much sought after in the world of business: he served as chairman of both
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and held that position until 1999. He was made Honorary Doctor of the University at Anglia Ruskin University in 1992.
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Prior is believed to have annoyed Thatcher by being too friendly with trade union leaders, with Thatcher writing,
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He was chairman and later vice-president of the Rural Housing Trust from 1990 to 1999.
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faction in the Conservative ranks. In 1981 he was moved to the less pivotal role of
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from 1983 to 1987, when he stood down from the House of Commons and was made a
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In January 1954, Prior married Jane Primrose Gifford Lywood, daughter of
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until March 1974. He was one of several unsuccessful candidates in the
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cypher machines, of a landed gentry family of Woodlands, near
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Prior was moved from the Employment portfolio to become
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He retired from Parliament in 1987, and was created a
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He was first elected to Parliament in 1959, and was
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Jim Prior (hurler)
James Prior (surgeon)
The Right Honourable
PC

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Margaret Thatcher
Humphrey Atkins
Douglas Hurd
Secretary of State for Employment
Margaret Thatcher
Albert Booth
Norman Tebbit
Leader of the House of Commons
Lord President of the Council
Edward Heath
Robert Carr
Edward Short
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Edward Heath
Cledwyn Hughes
Joseph Godber
Member of Parliament
Waveney
Lowestoft
Edward Evans
David Porter
Shadow Cabinet
Shadow Secretary of State for Employment
Margaret Thatcher

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