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- 1940- . British Conservative politician,
- member of Parliament from 1970, a cabinet
- minister from 1985, and education secretary
- from 1990. Clarke was politically active as a
- law student at Cambridge. He was elected to
- Parliament for Rushcliff, Nottinghamshire, in
- 1970. In 1982 he became a minister of state,
- in 1985 paymaster general, with special
- responsibility for employment, and in 1987
- chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1988
- he was made minister of health, and in 1990
- he became education secretary. Clarke was
- once secretary of the left-of-centre Bow
- Group.
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