The Independent - London, January 22nd, 2001
REG PRENTICE was the first and only cabinet minister since Winston Churchill to cross the floor of the House, join the main opposition party and serve in a Conservative government. He left the Labour Party on the eve of the Conservative Party conference in 1977 and, without paying any heed to the customary gesture of sitting for a while as an independent, immediately sat on the Conservative benches.
Not unnaturally there was anger amongst his former colleagues and Shirley Williams, herself to defect a few years later for much the same reasons, roundly condemned his action. Part of her anger s...
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