Ferdinand Mount

Diary – 10 October 2009

Ferdinand Mount opens his diary

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Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount was head of the No. 10 policy unit under Margaret Thatcher. He is author of a number of books, including ‘The New Few: Power and Inequality in Britain Now’.

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