• most senior Labour figure ever to defect to the Conservative Party. Reg Prentice was born in Croydon, Surrey, and educated at Whitgift School in South...
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  • (29 June 1975). "Plucky Reg Squares up to a losing fight". The Observer. p. 2. Geoff Horn, "Crossing the Floor: Reg Prentice and the Crisis of British...
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    contest the Daventry constituency after the sitting Conservative MP Reg Prentice announced his retirement. He was elected as the Conservative MP for Daventry...
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  • (soccer) player Reg Prentice (1923–2001), politician in the United Kingdom Tim Prentice (designer), industrial designer Tim Prentice (sculptor) (21st...
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    day-to-day responsibility. Under the Labour government of the 1970s, Reg Prentice sat in the Cabinet during his term. The post's last and main format was...
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    economic reality (Macmillan, 1985). Horn, Geoff. Crossing the floor: Reg Prentice and the crisis of British social democracy (Manchester University Press...
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    right-wing minister Reg Prentice from the Department of Education, despite already promising Jenkins that he had no intention of sacking Prentice. Jenkins threatened...
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    Roy Mason Bob Mellish John Morris Fred Mulley Stanley Orme Fred Peart Reg Prentice Merlyn Rees Bill Rodgers Willie Ross Lord Shepherd Peter Shore Edward...
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    Education and Science The Lord Bowden 19 October 1964 – 11 October 1965 Reg Prentice 20 October 1964 – 6 April 1966   Edward Redhead 11 October 1965 – 7 January...
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  • January 1981 – 12 June 1983 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Preceded by Reg Prentice Succeeded by Rhodes Boyson Minister of State for Northern Ireland In...
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    Roy Mason Bob Mellish John Morris Fred Mulley Stanley Orme Fred Peart Reg Prentice Merlyn Rees Bill Rodgers Willie Ross Lord Shepherd Peter Shore Edward...
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    Election Member Party Feb 1974 Arthur Jones Conservative 1979 Reg Prentice Conservative 1987 Tim Boswell Conservative 2010 Chris Heaton-Harris Conservative...
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    Roy Mason Bob Mellish John Morris Fred Mulley Stanley Orme Fred Peart Reg Prentice Merlyn Rees Bill Rodgers Willie Ross Lord Shepherd Peter Shore Edward...
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    1970 – 4 March 1974 Prime Minister Edward Heath Preceded by Edward Short Succeeded by Reg Prentice Parliamentary Secretary 1961–1964 Ministry for Pensions...
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  • Sessions as Edward Heath Roger Allam as Gordon Reece David Westhead as Reg Prentice Michael Pennington as Michael Foot Angus Wright as John Nott Julian Wadham...
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    Roy Mason Bob Mellish John Morris Fred Mulley Stanley Orme Fred Peart Reg Prentice Merlyn Rees Bill Rodgers Willie Ross Lord Shepherd Peter Shore Edward...
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    Prime Minister Harold Wilson Preceded by Anthony Greenwood Succeeded by Reg Prentice Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations In office 16 October 1964 –...
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    Roy Mason Bob Mellish John Morris Fred Mulley Stanley Orme Fred Peart Reg Prentice Merlyn Rees Bill Rodgers Willie Ross Lord Shepherd Peter Shore Edward...
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    deselection of the sitting MP, Reg Prentice, and in order to highlight Militant tendency entryism in the Labour Party. Prentice himself later joined the Conservatives...
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    Roy Mason Bob Mellish John Morris Fred Mulley Stanley Orme Fred Peart Reg Prentice Merlyn Rees Bill Rodgers Willie Ross Lord Shepherd Peter Shore Edward...
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    September 1976 Prime Minister Harold Wilson Jim Callaghan Preceded by Reg Prentice Succeeded by Shirley Williams Minister of Transport In office 7 March...
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    Roy Mason Bob Mellish John Morris Fred Mulley Stanley Orme Fred Peart Reg Prentice Merlyn Rees Bill Rodgers Willie Ross Lord Shepherd Peter Shore Edward...
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  • office 29 October 1974 – 4 May 1979 Leader Margaret Thatcher Preceded by Reg Prentice Succeeded by Albert Booth Shadow Home Secretary In office 11 March 1974 –...
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  • service or wherever". At the same time in late 1975, cabinet minister Reg Prentice, later a Conservative minister, was deselected by his Constituency Labour...
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    printed a series of articles by disillusioned former Labour ministers (Reg Prentice, Richard Marsh, Lord George-Brown, Alfred Robens and Lord Chalfont) detailing...
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