The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
... immortalised by being roughly pushed aside by the combined might of Margaret Thatcher and Sir Bernard Ingham immediately after the Paris summit of 1990, and just before the lady's great fall of that autumn. Subsequently he was in the process of establishing himself as a public figure in what was then a small way of business (in his youth he had been a cabaret performer). The story...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
After another hopeless amble around the dance floor on Strictly Come Dancing, John Sergeant, the 64-year-old political reporter, sidled over to the judges’ table for his weekly drubbing. With 10m viewers watching at home, Sergeant’s ego had not been this battered since Sir Bernard Ingham, the prime minister’s press secretary, famously heaved him out of a close-to-resignation Margaret...
Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
In his celebrated diaries, the late Tory MP Alan Clark wrote that when he looked down from his window on the street below, he wondered what would happen if he, as a Government Minister, urinated on the crowd below. Naturally, he thought, Margaret Thatcher's spindoctor, Sir Bernard Ingham, would have to cover it up. Well now we know what happens . A councillor from Jersey City peed on...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... her departure from the political scene. Sergeant was pushed aside by her grumpy press secretary, Bernard Ingham, when the PM emerged from the building. It won him the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year, though he was up against stiff competition in the form of the footballer Paul Gascoigne who was nominated for bursting into tears during a vital...
