Rise (and Fall) of a Blair Babe

The Journal › March 30, 2004

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Summary

Beleaguered Home Office Minister Beverley Hughes has enjoyed a meteoric rise through the Government ranks since being elected to Parliament as one of the 1997 generation of "Blair babes".

But her appointment to the immigration and asylum brief placed her at the centre of one of the most ferocious battlegrounds of modern politics, and a series of controversies in recent weeks have raised doubts over her future.

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Rise (and Fall) of a Blair Babe

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