Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (born 12 May 1944 in Bath, Somerset) is a prominent British Conservative politician and a Patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was a Member of Parliament, eventually rising to a cabinet minister and party chairman. In the latter capacity, he orchestrated the Conservatives' unexpected fourth consecutive electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat in the House of Commons. Wikipedia
<I>"I've always believed that no one would be able to snuff-out Hong Kong's democratic spirit ... And so it has overwhelmingly proved."</I> news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/06/98/hong_kong_h...
Neil Kinnock and Chris Patten are to be made life peers, taking their seats when they leave the EU Commission. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3965367.stm
Profile of former governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten as he prepares to take up a seat in the House of Lords. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3965499.stm
Chris Patten is less the Tories' lost leader than the confirmed leader of Britain's Christian Democrats - pro-European, Catholic, keen on public service, highly civilised. politics.guardian.co.uk/interviews/story/0,11660,1166734,...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Chris Patten. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Patten
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