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Kenneth Clarke, 2005.
Kenneth Clarke, 2005.

Kenneth Harry Clarke

British politician
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Born:
July 2, 1940, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England (age 84)
Title / Office:
lord chancellor (2010-2012), United Kingdom
Political Affiliation:
Conservative Party
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Kenneth Harry Clarke (born July 2, 1940, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England) is a British Conservative politician who served as a cabinet official in the governments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and David Cameron, including as Major’s chancellor of the Exchequer (1993–97) and as Cameron’s lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice (2010–12). He also served as a minister without portfolio (2012–14) in Cameron’s cabinet. A major figure in the Conservative Party for several decades, he unsuccessfully ran for leadership of the party on several occasions. In the 1960s Clarke was one of a group of University of Cambridge undergraduates, including ...(100 of 575 words)

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