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December 5, 1997

Margaret Beckett, president of the Board of Trade, started her speech to Save British Science's annual general meeting by explaining why she was addressing them. "This is an invitation I felt not able to refuse," she said. Her brother-in-law is a member of the pressure group, so she may have decided that the oration was a way of ensuring a quiet Christmas lunch.

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