LOCAL AFFAIRS: authorship, politics and the LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

From 1988 to 1992, following an interest in family history and my researches and authorship of a book on local history of my then home village, “The History of Little Paxton”, I became a local personality as District Councillor for Paxton Ward and then Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Huntingdonshire District Council  and their regional Campaign Organiser but, though I was at one stage on the parliamentary list, I declined opportunities to enter national Politics for family and personal reasons but have always kept abreast of developments and had a close interest. In those days, I had links with the then Prime Minister (then our MP John Major) as a healthy political opponent but retained some family links as a fellow ‘Pony Mum’ of his wife Norma at the riding school with her daughter Elisabeth (my son’s classmate at Kimbolton School) helped my daughter Deborah with Pony Club preparations and events.