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Other options. RIP Trumpers. Socialite, mother, Bletchley Park code breaker, Baroness, Minister, trailblazer, heroine and an utter joy. This story has been corrected to give the surname as Barker, not Baker. Sections U. But the jocularity for which she was famed disguised a sensitive and thoughtful politician.
She also had a remarkable facility for friendships in which age, social status and politics were wholly irrelevant. As well as being one of the longest continuous serving members of Tory governments in office until , she had a number of claims on historical records.
While she was a junior minister at the Department of Health and Social Security, from to , she sought to legalise brothels, but her plans were publicised and subsequently scrapped by the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
She moved to the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in , was promoted to minister of state two years later and greatly enjoyed her responsibilities there, particularly because of the overseas travel involved.
Returning from the Caribbean on one occasion, she made a personal private present to the Duke of Edinburgh of a small device, which if fitted over a finger and pulled taut could not then be removed. When Major asked her to retire from this post in , she admitted unashamedly to her friends later that she had burst into tears. The prime minister patted her on the shoulder and relented. Trumpington cut a formidable figure at a stately 6ft in height and her stentorian voice was weathered by nearly 70 years of cigarette smoking; she started smoking at the age of 10 and gave up at Menu Close.
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