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How indiscretions over Suez ruined Rab Butler

13 October 2018

9:00 AM

13 October 2018

9:00 AM

I bet that you are at best dimly aware of the Progress Trust, and that is what the members of this now-defunct fixture would have wanted. It was a misleadingly named group of comfortably off, often landed backbench Tory MPs, and its weekly discussions very rarely leaked. An unnamed member once explained why.

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