09Mar90 UK: PROFILE - PATRICK NICHOLLS, UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT.
Patrick Nicholls is the Government minister responsible for hard hats in the construction industry and has a reputation for being a hard-headed politician, especially when his own home and the east Devon village of Clyst St Mary is concerned. Like Nicholas Ridley, the Trade and Industry Secretary and former Environment Secretary - who put a new word in to the political lexicon, NIMBY, or 'not in my back yard' - Mr Nicholls exercised his democratic right to oppose the building of a ...
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