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    Ticking bomb in my Downing Street bin

    May 29, 2024 2 minutes

    I worked at 10 Downing Street from 1966 to 1973, first under Harold Wilson and then Ted Heath, as a ‘garden girl’ – one of a dozen or so Civil Service secretaries.

    We were so called because our large office, situated below the

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