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12 November 2012
Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, said that the night of George Entwistle’s resignation was “the saddest” in his long life in public affairs. Sadder even than the night he lost his parliamentary seat of Bath to the Lib-Dems in 1992? Maybe Patten was secretly relieved to lose his seat. Voters — and licence payers — are so tiresome.
