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The former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Gilmour has died aged 81. | |
His eldest son David Gilmour said he died at the West Middlesex Hospital following a short illness. | |
Ian Gilmour served as defence secretary in Edward Heath's Cabinet before becoming Lord Privy Seal in Margaret Thatcher's first government. | |
He was sacked in 1981 and went on to the back benches where he remained until he went to the House of Lords as Lord Gilmour of Craigmillar in 1992. | |
The leading "Wet" in Thatcher's Cabinet, Ian Gilmour was critical of the government's handling of economic policy and did not enjoy good relations with the prime minister. | |
He was Conservative MP for Norfolk Central from 1962 to 1974 and Chesham and Amersham from 1974 to 1992. |