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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Honourable" title="The Right Honourable">The Right Honourable</a></div><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Patricia Hewitt</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Patricia_Hewitt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Patricia_Hewitt.jpg/220px-Patricia_Hewitt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Patricia_Hewitt.jpg/330px-Patricia_Hewitt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Patricia_Hewitt.jpg/440px-Patricia_Hewitt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2014" data-file-height="2685" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Official portrait, 2006</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Health">Secretary of State for Health</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />6 May 2005 – 28 June 2007</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Reid,_Baron_Reid_of_Cardowan" title="John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan">John Reid</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Johnson" title="Alan Johnson">Alan Johnson</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Trade_and_Industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Trade and Industry">Secretary of State for Trade and Industry</a><br /><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Board_of_Trade" title="President of the Board of Trade">President of the Board of Trade</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />8 June 2001 – 6 May 2005</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Byers" title="Stephen Byers">Stephen Byers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Johnson" title="Alan Johnson">Alan Johnson</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Women_and_Equalities" title="Minister for Women and Equalities">Minister for Women</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />8 June 2001 – 6 May 2005</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Jay,_Baroness_Jay_of_Paddington" title="Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington">The Baroness Jay of Paddington</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tessa_Jowell" title="Tessa Jowell">Tessa Jowell</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Economic_Secretary_to_the_Treasury" title="Economic Secretary to the Treasury">Economic Secretary to the Treasury</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />27 July 1998 – 17 May 1999</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Helen_Liddell" title="Helen Liddell">Helen Liddell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Melanie_Johnson" title="Melanie Johnson">Melanie Johnson</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Leicester_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leicester West (UK Parliament constituency)">Leicester West</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Greville_Janner,_Baron_Janner_of_Braunstone" class="mw-redirect" title="Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone">Greville Janner</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Liz_Kendall" title="Liz Kendall">Liz Kendall</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Patricia Hope Hewitt</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1948-12-02</span>) </span>2 December 1948<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 75)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a>, Australia</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">David Gibson-Watt (1970–1978)<br />Bill Birtles (1981–2020†)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lenox_Hewitt" title="Lenox Hewitt">Lenox Hewitt</a> (father)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Australian_National_University" title="Australian National University">Australian National University</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Newnham_College,_Cambridge" title="Newnham College, Cambridge">Newnham College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Patricia Hope Hewitt</b> (born 2 December 1948) is a British government adviser and former politician, who was the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Health">Secretary of State for Health</a> from 2005 to 2007. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a>, she had previously been the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Trade_and_Industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Trade and Industry">Secretary of State for Trade and Industry</a> from 2001 to 2005. </p><p>Hewitt's political career began in the 1970s, as a high-profile left-winger and supporter of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Benn" title="Tony Benn">Tony Benn</a>. She was even classified by <a href="/wiki/MI5" title="MI5">MI5</a> as an alleged communist sympathiser. After nine years as General Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Liberty_(pressure_group)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberty (pressure group)">National Council for Civil Liberties</a>, she became press secretary to <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a>, whom she assisted in the modernisation of the Labour Party. In 1997, she became the first female MP for <a href="/wiki/Leicester_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leicester West (UK Parliament constituency)">Leicester West</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Safe_seat" title="Safe seat">safe Labour seat</a> in the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands">East Midlands</a>, which she represented for thirteen years. </p><p>In 2001 she joined <a href="/wiki/Second_Blair_ministry" title="Second Blair ministry">Blair's cabinet</a>, the first of the 1997 intake of MPs to do so, as <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Board_of_Trade" title="President of the Board of Trade">President of the Board of Trade</a> and <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Trade_and_Industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Trade and Industry">Secretary of State for Trade and Industry</a>, before becoming Health Secretary in 2005. During her tenure, the ban on smoking in public places became legally enforceable. In March 2010, Hewitt was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party over the question of political lobbying irregularities, alleged on the Channel 4 <i><a href="/wiki/Dispatches_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dispatches (TV series)">Dispatches</a></i> programme. </p><p>She is a former <a href="/wiki/School_governors" class="mw-redirect" title="School governors">school governor</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Kentish_Town" title="Kentish Town">Kentish Town</a> Primary School. </p><p>In November 2022, British <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Hunt" title="Jeremy Hunt">Jeremy Hunt</a>, announced that Hewitt would serve in an advisory role to the then Conservative Government. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hewit was born in <a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a>, Australia. She is the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Lenox_Hewitt" title="Lenox Hewitt">Sir Lenox Hewitt</a>, a leading Australian civil servant and later chairman of <a href="/wiki/Qantas" title="Qantas">Qantas</a>, and the former Hope Tillyard. Her maternal grandfather was entomologist <a href="/wiki/Robert_John_Tillyard" title="Robert John Tillyard">Robert John Tillyard</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HopeOBIT_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HopeOBIT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hewitt was privately educated at <a href="/wiki/Canberra_Girls%27_Grammar_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Canberra Girls' Grammar School">Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar School</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Australian_National_University" title="Australian National University">Australian National University</a>. She then studied for degrees in English Literature at <a href="/wiki/Newnham_College,_Cambridge" title="Newnham College, Cambridge">Newnham College, Cambridge</a>, where she graduated BA (later promoted to MA). She became a visiting fellow at <a href="/wiki/Nuffield_College,_Oxford" title="Nuffield College, Oxford">Nuffield College, Oxford</a>, and was awarded an honorary Oxford MA. She speaks French and is a keen gardener. </p><p>In 1970, Hewitt married David Julian Gibson-Watt, second son of <a href="/wiki/David_Gibson-Watt,_Baron_Gibson-Watt" title="David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt">David Gibson Watt</a>, Conservative MP for Hereford, and Diana Hambro. The couple divorced in 1978. Originally a Conservative, by the time of her divorce she had moved to the left, becoming a committed <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/MI5" title="MI5">MI5</a> classified her as a "Communist sympathiser" in the 1970s because of her relationship with William (Bill) Jack Birtles, a radical lawyer.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1981, she married Birtles in Camden; they have a daughter (born September 1986) and a son (born February 1988). In 1971, she became <a href="/wiki/Age_Concern" title="Age Concern">Age Concern</a>'s Press and <a href="/wiki/Public_Relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Relations">Public Relations</a> Officer, before joining the National Council for Civil Liberties (now <a href="/wiki/Liberty_(pressure_group)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberty (pressure group)">Liberty</a>), initially as a <a href="/wiki/Legal_rights_of_women" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal rights of women">women's rights</a> officer in 1973, and for nine years from 1974 as the general secretary. </p><p>In 1990, the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe">Council of Europe</a> ruled that MI5 surveillance of both Hewitt and the NCCL legal officer, Harriet Harman, had breached the <a href="/wiki/European_Convention_of_Human_Rights" class="mw-redirect" title="European Convention of Human Rights">European Convention of Human Rights</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pre-Parliamentary_career">Pre-Parliamentary career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Pre-Parliamentary career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hewitt joined the Labour Party in the 1970, and was initially a follower of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Benn" title="Tony Benn">Tony Benn</a>; she publicly condemned those left-wing MPs who abstained in the deputy leadership election of 1981, giving <a href="/wiki/Denis_Healey" title="Denis Healey">Denis Healey</a> a narrow victory. She was selected as the Labour candidate in <a href="/wiki/Leicester_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leicester East (UK Parliament constituency)">Leicester East constituency</a> at the <a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983 general election</a>, following the defection of the sitting Labour MP, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Bradley_(UK_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Bradley (UK politician)">Tom Bradley</a>, to the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">Social Democratic Party</a>. Bradley stood for the SDP at the election, but it was the Conservative candidate, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Bruinvels" title="Peter Bruinvels">Peter Bruinvels</a>, who defeated Hewitt, who came second, by just 933 votes. </p><p>Following her defeat in Leicester, she became <a href="/wiki/Press_secretary" title="Press secretary">press secretary</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the Opposition (UK)">Leader of the Opposition</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a>. In this role she was a key player in the first stages of the 'modernisation' of the Labour Party and, along with <a href="/wiki/Clive_Hollick,_Baron_Hollick" title="Clive Hollick, Baron Hollick">Clive Hollick</a>, helped set up the <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="Institute for Public Policy Research">Institute for Public Policy Research</a> and was its deputy director 1989–1994. </p><p>Following Labour's defeat in 1992, Hewitt was asked by the new Labour leader, <a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)" title="John Smith (Labour Party leader)">John Smith</a>, to help establish the Commission on Social Justice, of which she became deputy chair.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She became head of research with <a href="/wiki/Andersen_Consulting" class="mw-redirect" title="Andersen Consulting">Andersen Consulting</a>, remaining in the post during the period 1994–1997. </p><p>Hewitt was elected to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> as the first female MP for <a href="/wiki/Leicester_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leicester West (UK Parliament constituency)">Leicester West</a> at the <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a>, following the retirement of the Labour MP <a href="/wiki/Greville_Janner" title="Greville Janner">Greville Janner</a>. She was elected with a majority of 12,864 and remained the constituency MP until stepping down in 2010. She made her <a href="/wiki/Maiden_speech" title="Maiden speech">maiden speech</a> on 3 July 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hewitt's constituency of <a href="/wiki/Leicester_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leicester West (UK Parliament constituency)">Leicester West</a> is a safe Labour seat, with a majority of 9,070 votes in the 2005 general election. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parliamentary_career">Parliamentary career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Parliamentary career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1997, Hewitt was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Social_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Social Security">social security</a> <a href="/wiki/Select_committee_(United_Kingdom)" title="Select committee (United Kingdom)">select committee</a> for a year, before becoming a member of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>'s government in his first <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_shuffle" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet shuffle">reshuffle</a> in 1998, as the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_to_the_Treasury#Economic_Secretaries_to_the_Treasury,_1947-present" title="Secretary to the Treasury">Economic Secretary to the Treasury</a>. She was promoted in 1999 to become a <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_State" title="Minister of State">Minister of State</a> for Small Business and E-Commerce at the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Trade_and_Industry_(United_Kingdom)" title="Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)">Department of Trade and Industry</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and created the <a href="/wiki/Social_Enterprise" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Enterprise">Social Enterprise</a> Unit for similar new companies. While in office Hewitt initiated a White Paper on telecommunications and broadcasting, jointly published by the DTI and DCMS; this proposed the merger of seven or more different regulators to create a single converged regulator, <a href="/wiki/Ofcom" title="Ofcom">OFCOM</a>. Hewitt was then responsible for appointing its first chairman, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Currie_of_Marylebone" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Currie of Marylebone">Lord Currie</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>She joined the Blair <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Cabinet of the United Kingdom">Cabinet</a> for the first time following the <a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001 general election</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Trade_and_Industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Trade and Industry">Secretary of State for Trade and Industry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Women_and_Equality" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for Women and Equality">Minister for Women and Equality</a>. She spent four years in this post and was seen as a fairly effective Trade and Industry Secretary despite controversial policies affecting her own constituency.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, she was seen as lacking leadership, particularly on consumer issues.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hewitt was then moved sideways to Health Secretary in May 2005.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Secretary_of_State_for_Trade_and_Industry">Secretary of State for Trade and Industry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hewitt became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Privy Council of the United Kingdom">Privy Council</a> in 2001 and was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from June 2001 until May 2005. During her time at the DTI, Hewitt introduced the "<a href="/wiki/Say_on_pay" title="Say on pay">say on pay</a>" laws, which require public companies to hold an annual shareholders' vote on the Remuneration Committee report on senior executive pay.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Hewitt defended <a href="/wiki/Outsourcing" title="Outsourcing">outsourcing</a> public sector support jobs to countries such as India in May 2004, arguing that outsourcing supported poorer communities in India and opposing <a href="/wiki/Protectionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Protectionist">protectionist</a> proposals.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2005, a <a href="/wiki/Judicial_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="Judicial Review">Judicial Review</a> found Hewitt "guilty of unlawful <a href="/wiki/Occupational_sexism" title="Occupational sexism">sex discrimination</a>" when she employed a female applicant for a DTI position ahead of a significantly stronger male candidate. The judge ruled that Malcolm Hanney had lost out to a candidate ranked third by the interview panel and that the failure to appoint him was "in breach of the code of practice for ministerial appointments to public bodies". Hewitt had quoted the Code of Practice on Public Appointments, which said: "Ministers will wish to balance boards in terms of diversity as well as skills and experience", although the panel had clearly stated that Mr Hanney was "much the strongest candidate". The DTI apologised and Hanney was awarded £17,967.17 costs.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the appointment was not overturned, and Hewitt herself did not apologise and claimed not to have realised she had been in breach of the law. <a href="/wiki/Rod_Liddle" title="Rod Liddle">Rod Liddle</a>, writing in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a>,</i> juxtaposed Hewitt's claim with the fact that Hewitt's department was itself responsible for the <a href="/wiki/Sex_Discrimination_Act_1975" title="Sex Discrimination Act 1975">Sex Discrimination Act</a>, suggesting that she believed the purpose of sex discrimination legislation "was intended to be of benefit only to women", rather than "maltreated job applicants ... foolish enough to be born with a penis".<sup id="cite_ref-timesonline.co.uk_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesonline.co.uk-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hewitt was criticised for a 2003 report by the Women and Equality unit, which was run by Hewitt, in which it was suggested that there was a "real problem" with <a href="/wiki/Housewife" title="Housewife">mothers who stayed at home</a> to bring up their children.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Secretary_of_State_for_Health">Secretary of State for Health</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Secretary of State for Health"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hewitt was appointed <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Health">Secretary of State for Health</a> following the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 general election</a>, having previously been tipped for the Work and Pensions department. She had a turbulent two years in office, during which several difficult issues arose, such as the controversy over the <a href="/wiki/Medical_Training_Application_Service" title="Medical Training Application Service">Medical Training Application Service</a> computer system and her decision to allow women with early breast cancer to have access to <a href="/wiki/Trastuzumab" title="Trastuzumab">trastuzumab</a> (Herceptin), for which it was not at that time a licensed indication and in the absence of NICE guidance.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, she also achieved several pieces of Labour's 2005 manifesto legislation during her time in office, including persuading MPs to vote for a complete <a href="/wiki/Smoking_ban" title="Smoking ban">smoking ban</a> in public places in England in 2006. </p><p>In April 2006, Hewitt made a speech in which she quoted the forewird to the 2014 NHS Annual Report by <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Crisp,_Baron_Crisp" title="Nigel Crisp, Baron Crisp">Nigel Crisp</a>, the then current NHS chief executive, stating the NHS had had "its best year ever", and citing a reduction in waiting times for hospital treatment. However, this claim came at a time when thousands of jobs were being cut across the country, as a number of NHS trusts attempted to cope with budget deficits. This comment did not go down well, and at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Nursing" title="Royal College of Nursing">Royal College of Nursing's</a> 2006 Congress in Bournemouth, Hewitt was heckled and booed by health workers. Delegates at the conference called for a halt to job cuts and bed closures, part of planned NHS reforms aimed at improving the effectiveness of the service, predicting that the number of posts lost could reach 13,000, and said that a work to rule was possible.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> BMA chairman, Mr. James Johnson, claimed that 2006 was actually one of the worst years on record, and that "2006 has been full of bleak moments for the NHS – job losses, training budgets slashed, trusts delaying operations in order to save money, and hospital closures announced at the same time as new PFI developments. Added to this the government's fixation with introducing the private sector into primary care which risks destabilising the well-respected UK system of general practice."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2007, Hewitt criticised the pay of general practitioners (GPs), which had increased to an average of £106,000 per annum, as a result of the contract the Government had implemented in 2004. Her department claimed that GPs had unfairly taken money out of their practices, when the new contract was actually intended to increase investment in practices,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although statements from Lord Warner in 2004 appeared to contradict this claim. He said that "The better services GPs provide, the more pay they will receive, as rewards will be directly linked with patients' experiences."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 17 March 2007 over 12,000 doctors went to London to take part in a march, objecting to the '<a href="/wiki/Medical_Training_Application_Service" title="Medical Training Application Service">Medical Training Application Service</a>' (MTAS), a job application system for junior doctors, which was subsequently investigated by the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Health (United Kingdom)">Department of Health</a>, and the programme '<a href="/wiki/Modernising_Medical_Careers" title="Modernising Medical Careers">Modernising Medical Careers</a>', for revealing the personal data of applicants.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> Leader of the Opposition, <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a>, joined the march and gave a speech.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged June 2010">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> </p><p>On 23 May 2007, Hewitt survived a <a href="/wiki/Vote_of_no_confidence" class="mw-redirect" title="Vote of no confidence">vote of no confidence</a> in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> led by the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservatives</a>, winning by 63 votes. A number of her cabinet colleagues joined her on the front bench to express solidarity. Despite this, pressure continued to mount on her to resign as Health Secretary.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Blair had already announced his imminent resignation for 27 June, it was widely expected Hewitt would step down. </p><p>On 3 April 2007, Hewitt apologised on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Today_(BBC_Radio_4)" title="Today (BBC Radio 4)">Today</a></i> programme, saying that the application scheme had caused terrible anxiety for junior doctors. However, the change offered by the Government to the scheme was not accepted by the BMA,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and she was accused by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lansley" title="Andrew Lansley">Andrew Lansley</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Minister">Shadow Minister</a> for Health, of failing to express genuine regret.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hewitt also made another apology on 1 May 2007 in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a>, after the suspension of the MTAS website, owing to security breaches, which she called "utterly deplorable".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Front-line health workers also lobbied against Hewitt, sending her petitions opposing cuts to the NHS and privatisation plans, which the Department of Health wanted to follow up. Andy Belfield of East Midlands Unison stated that waiting list reductions achieved before the 2005 election were now at risk, owing to expansion of private sector involvement.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A survey from October 2006 showed that only 37% of workers from the Department of Health were confident in the leadership provided by Hewitt, compared with 57% across <a href="/wiki/Whitehall" title="Whitehall">Whitehall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the criticism, Hewitt managed to balance the books of the NHS, which had previously been in huge debt. After having vowed to resign should the NHS complete another year with debts,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hewitt ensured that the Health Service ended 2006/2007 with a £510 million surplus.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, to do this she was forced to cut 17,000 jobs, cut public health spending, although that had previously been at a high level, and reduce study budgets for NHS staff.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By June 2007, although the overall budget was balanced, one in five NHS hospital trusts were still in debt.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Health Secretary, Hewitt lobbied hard for a complete ban on smoking in public places, which came into force on 1 July 2007. Her predecessor, <a href="/wiki/John_Reid,_Baron_Reid_of_Cardowan" title="John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan">John Reid</a>, had been in favour of limiting the Government's proposed <a href="/wiki/Smoking_ban" title="Smoking ban">smoking ban</a> as much as possible, and Labour's 2005 election <a href="/wiki/Manifesto" title="Manifesto">manifesto</a> had included only a limited pledge, proposing only to ban smoking in places where food was served. Even though he had been moved to <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Defence" title="Secretary of State for Defence">Secretary of State for Defence</a>, Reid was the main opponent of her proposals, and a leading figure in the decision of the Cabinet to grant an exemption for private clubs and pubs that did not serve food.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the exemption in the Cabinet proposals did not find favour with MPs, and the Government gave them a free vote on the issue. Hewitt voted with the rebels to defeat the Cabinet's partial ban, which was replaced by the outright ban that she had always wanted.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sir <a href="/wiki/Liam_Donaldson" title="Liam Donaldson">Liam Donaldson</a> described the ban as "a momentous move, which would prevent the deaths of both smokers and non-smokers."<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2010, it was announced that there had been a 2.4% fall in heart attack admissions in the year following the ban.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also called for a tax increase on <a href="/wiki/Alcopop" title="Alcopop">alcopops</a>, although none ultimately took place.<sup id="cite_ref-historyandpolicy_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-historyandpolicy-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also introduced the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nhs.uk">NHS Choices</a> website. </p><p>Hewitt was known as a reliable <a href="/wiki/Blairism" title="Blairism">Blairite</a> within the cabinet and voted loyally with the Government in Parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, she once notably broke ranks on the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Question_Time_(television)" class="mw-redirect" title="Question Time (television)">Question Time</a></i>, expressing her concern about Government plans to introduce <a href="/wiki/ID_cards" class="mw-redirect" title="ID cards">ID cards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She ruled herself out of the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, declaring her support for <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Harman" title="Harriet Harman">Harriet Harman</a>, who was the successful candidate. On 27 June 2007 it was announced that Hewitt would not be Health Secretary in <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a>'s new cabinet, an announcement that had been widely expected.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Retirement_from_the_cabinet">Retirement from the cabinet</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Retirement from the cabinet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 27 June 2007, with the appointment of <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a> as Prime Minister, Hewitt announced her retirement from frontline politics, citing 'personal reasons'. On resigning from the cabinet, Hewitt was asked by the Prime Minister to head an EU manifesto group, developing European policy for the next general election manifesto.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="After_cabinet_–_consultancies_and_directorships"><span id="After_cabinet_.E2.80.93_consultancies_and_directorships"></span>After cabinet – consultancies and directorships</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: After cabinet – consultancies and directorships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2008, Hewitt was appointed special consultant to the world's largest chemists, <a href="/wiki/Alliance_Boots" title="Alliance Boots">Alliance Boots</a>. Such an appointment was controversial, given Hewitt's former role as Health Minister, resulting in objections to her appointment by members of a Parliamentary committee. Hewitt also become the special adviser to private equity company <a href="/wiki/Cinven" title="Cinven">Cinven</a>, which paid £1.4 billion for Bupa's UK hospitals.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Hewitt joined the <a href="/wiki/BT_Group" title="BT Group">BT Group</a> board as a non-executive director<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on 24 March 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and retired from the position in 2015, after six years as a director and five as senior independent director and chair of the remuneration committee. </p><p>In July 2009, Hewitt joined the <a href="/wiki/UK_India_Business_Council" title="UK India Business Council">UK India Business Council</a> as its chair and was reappointed to the role in 2014. She stepped down from this role in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2017, Hewitt was appointed the chair of the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) Oversight Board for <a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a> and Waveney. In this capacity she also attends the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Health_and_Wellbeing_Board,_Norfolk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Health and Wellbeing Board, Norfolk (page does not exist)">Health and Wellbeing Board, Norfolk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stepping_down_and_suspension_from_Parliamentary_Labour_Party">Stepping down and suspension from Parliamentary Labour Party</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Stepping down and suspension from Parliamentary Labour Party"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2009, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> reported that Hewitt had claimed £920 in legal fees when she had moved out of a flat in her constituency, stayed in hotels, and then rented another flat in Leicester. Claims for furniture included £194 for blinds delivered to her London home.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2009 Hewitt announced that she would be stepping down from the House of Commons. She said she was leaving the Commons for personal reasons as she wanted to spend more time with her family.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 6 January 2010, she and fellow ex-minister <a href="/wiki/Geoff_Hoon" title="Geoff Hoon">Geoff Hoon</a> jointly called for a secret ballot on the future of the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following day Hoon said that it appeared to have failed and was "over". Brown later referred to the call for a secret ballot as a "form of silliness".<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2010, Hewitt was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party over the question of political lobbying irregularities, alleged in the Channel 4 <i><a href="/wiki/Dispatches_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dispatches (TV series)">Dispatches</a></i> programme. </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a> Hewitt was succeeded as MP for Leicester West by <a href="/wiki/Liz_Kendall" title="Liz Kendall">Liz Kendall</a>, who had been her <a href="/wiki/Special_adviser_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Special adviser (UK)">Special Adviser (SpAd)</a> during her time in Cabinet. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dispatches_Lobbyist_investigation"><i>Dispatches</i> Lobbyist investigation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Dispatches Lobbyist investigation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2010_Cash_for_Influence_Scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Cash for Influence Scandal">2010 Cash for Influence Scandal</a></div> <p>Hewitt was one of the MPs named in the 2010 <a href="/wiki/Sting_operation" title="Sting operation">sting operation</a> into political lobbying in the <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Dispatches_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dispatches (TV series)">Dispatches</a></i> programme, in which she appeared to claim that she had been paid £3,000 a day to help a client obtain a key seat on a Government advisory group.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 22 March 2010, Hewitt, along with <a href="/wiki/Geoff_Hoon" title="Geoff Hoon">Geoff Hoon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Byers" title="Stephen Byers">Stephen Byers</a>, was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party over the allegations. Hoon and Byers were both banned from the House of Commons for five and two years respectively, but no further action was taken against Hewitt for her part in the "Cash for Access" affair.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since September 2020, Hewitt has been an adviser to the British <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Trade" title="Board of Trade">Board of Trade</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2022, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Hunt" title="Jeremy Hunt">Jeremy Hunt</a>, announced that Hewitt would serve in an advisory role to the Conservative Government on NHS administration.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian-20221117_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-20221117-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="PIE_and_the_NCCL_controversy">PIE and the NCCL controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: PIE and the NCCL controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2014, the NCCL's connection with the <a href="/wiki/Paedophile_Information_Exchange" title="Paedophile Information Exchange">Paedophile Information Exchange</a>, an affiliated group during Hewitt's period as the pressure group's general secretary, gained media attention, to which <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Harman" title="Harriet Harman">Harriet Harman</a> and her partner <a href="/wiki/Jack_Dromey" title="Jack Dromey">Jack Dromey</a> also responded. A document in Hewitt's name stated: "NCCL proposes that the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_consent" title="Age of consent">age of consent</a> should be lowered to 14, with special provision for situations where the partners are close in age or where the consent of a child over ten can be proved". The document also called for <a href="/wiki/Incest" title="Incest">incest</a> to be legalised.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 27 February 2014, Hewitt in a statement apologised and took responsibility for the "mistakes" made, saying that she and the NCCL had been "naive" about PIE, while insisting that she had never "supported or condoned the vile crimes of child abusers".<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Hewitt&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Your Rights</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1973, Age Concern Books, Age Concern England, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-904502-08-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-904502-08-2">0-904502-08-2</a></li> <li><i>Danger Women at Work: Conference Report</i> Edited by Patricia Hewitt, National Council for Civil Liberties, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901108-30-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-901108-30-8">0-901108-30-8</a></li> <li><i>Equality for Women: Comments on Labour's Proposals for an Anti-Discrimination Law</i>, Edited by Patricia Hewitt, National Council for Civil Liberties, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901108-33-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-901108-33-2">0-901108-33-2</a></li> <li><i>Step-by-Step Guide to Rights for Women</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1975, National Council for Civil Liberties, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901108-49-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-901108-49-9">0-901108-49-9</a></li> <li><i>Your Rights</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1976, Age Concern Books, Age Concern England, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-904502-62-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-904502-62-7">0-904502-62-7</a></li> <li><i>Your Rights: For Pensioners</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1976, Age Concern Books, Age Concern England, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-904502-66-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-904502-66-X">0-904502-66-X</a></li> <li><i>Civil Liberties</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1977</li> <li><i>The Privacy Report</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1977</li> <li><i>Privacy: The Information Gatherers</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1978, National Council for Civil Liberties, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901108-68-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-901108-68-5">0-901108-68-5</a></li> <li><i>Your Rights at Work</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1978, National Council for Civil Liberties, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901108-71-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-901108-71-5">0-901108-71-5</a></li> <li><i>Computers, Records and the Right to Privacy</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1979, Input Two-Nine, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-905897-27-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-905897-27-7">0-905897-27-7</a></li> <li><i>Income Tax and Sex Discrimination: Practical Guide</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1979, Civil Liberties Trust, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901108-84-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-901108-84-7">0-901108-84-7</a></li> <li><i>Your Rights at Work</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1980, National Council for Civil Liberties, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901108-88-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-901108-88-X">0-901108-88-X</a></li> <li><i>Prevention of Terrorism Act: The Case for Repeal</i> by <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Scorer" title="Catherine Scorer">Catherine Scorer</a> and Patricia Hewitt, 1981, National Council for Civil Liberties, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901108-94-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-901108-94-4">0-901108-94-4</a></li> <li><i>The Abuse of Power: Civil Liberties in the United Kingdom</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1981, Blackwell Publishers, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85520-380-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-85520-380-3">0-85520-380-3</a></li> <li><i>A Fair Cop: Reforming the Police Complaints Procedure</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1982, Civil Liberties Trust, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946088-01-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-946088-01-2">0-946088-01-2</a></li> <li><i>Race Relations: A Practical Guide to the Law on Race Discrimination</i> by Paul Gordon, John Wright, Patricia Hewitt, 1982, Civil Liberties Trust, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946088-02-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-946088-02-0">0-946088-02-0</a></li> <li><i>Your Rights: For Pensioners</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1982, Age Concern England, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-86242-014-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-86242-014-8">0-86242-014-8</a></li> <li><i>Your Rights at Work</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1983, National Council for Civil Liberties, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946088-06-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-946088-06-3">0-946088-06-3</a></li> <li><i>Your Rights: For Pensioners</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1984, Age Concern England, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-86242-029-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-86242-029-6">0-86242-029-6</a></li> <li><i>The New Prevention of Terrorism Act: The Case for Repeal</i> by Catherine Scorer, Sarah Spencer, Patricia Hewitt, 1985, Civil Liberties Trust, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946088-13-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-946088-13-6">0-946088-13-6</a></li> <li><i>Your Rights: For Pensioners</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1986, Age Concern England, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-86242-047-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-86242-047-4">0-86242-047-4</a></li> <li><i>A Cleaner, Faster London: Road Pricing, Transport Policy and the Environment</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1989, Institute for Public Policy Research, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-872452-00-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-872452-00-0">1-872452-00-0</a></li> <li><i>Women's Votes: The Key to Winning</i> Edited by Patricia Hewitt and Deborah Mattinson, 1989, Fabian Society, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7163-1353-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-7163-1353-7">0-7163-1353-7</a></li> <li><i>Your Rights: A Guide to Money Benefits for Retired People</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1989, Age Concern England, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-86242-080-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-86242-080-6">0-86242-080-6</a></li> <li><i>The Family Way: A New Approach to Policy-Making</i> by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anna_Coote&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anna Coote (page does not exist)">Anna Coote</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Harman" title="Harriet Harman">Harriet Harman</a>, Patricia Hewitt, 1990, Institute for Public Policy Research, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-872452-15-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-872452-15-9">1-872452-15-9</a></li> <li><i>Your Second Baby</i> by Patricia Hewitt and Wendy Rose-Neil, 1990, HarperCollins, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-04-440608-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-04-440608-8">0-04-440608-8</a></li> <li><i>Next Left: An Agenda for the 1990s</i> by <a href="/wiki/Tessa_Blackstone,_Baroness_Blackstone" title="Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone">Tessa Blackstone</a>, James Cornford, <a href="/wiki/David_Miliband" title="David Miliband">David Miliband</a> and Patricia Hewitt, 1992, Institute for Public Policy Research, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-872452-45-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-872452-45-0">1-872452-45-0</a></li> <li><i>About Time: Revolution in Work and Family Life</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1993, Rivers Oram Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85489-040-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-85489-040-9">1-85489-040-9</a></li> <li><i>Social Justice, Children and Families</i> by Patricia Hewitt and Penelope Leach, 1993, Institute for Public Policy Research, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-872452-76-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-872452-76-0">1-872452-76-0</a></li> <li><i>A British Bill of Rights</i> by Anthony Lester, Patricia Hewitt et al., 1996, Institute for Public Policy Research, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-86030-044-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-86030-044-8">1-86030-044-8</a></li> <li><i>The Politics of Attachment: Towards a Secure Society</i> by Sebastian Kraemer, preface by Patricia Hewitt, 1996, <a href="/wiki/Free_Association_Books" title="Free Association Books">Free Association Books</a> Ltd, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85343-344-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-85343-344-6">1-85343-344-6</a></li> <li><i>Defence for the 21st Century: Towards a Post Cold-War Force Structure</i> by Malcolm Chalmer, foreword by Patricia Hewitt, 1997, Fabian Society, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7163-3040-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-7163-3040-7">0-7163-3040-7</a></li> <li><i>Information Age Government: Delivering the Blair Revolution</i> by <a href="/wiki/Liam_Byrne" title="Liam Byrne">Liam Byrne</a>, foreword by Patricia Hewitt, 1997, Fabian Society, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7163-0582-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-7163-0582-8">0-7163-0582-8</a></li> <li><i>Pebbles in the Sand</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 1998, <a href="/wiki/Dorrance_Publishing_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="Dorrance Publishing Co.">Dorrance Publishing Co.</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8059-4272-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8059-4272-6">0-8059-4272-6</a></li> <li><i>Winning for Women</i> by <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Harman" title="Harriet Harman">Harriet Harman</a> and Deborah Mattinson, foreword by Patricia Hewitt, 2000, Fabian Society, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7163-0596-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-7163-0596-8">0-7163-0596-8</a></li> <li><i>Unfinished Business: The New Agenda for the Workplace</i> by Patricia Hewitt, 2004, Institute for Public Policy Research, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-86030-259-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-86030-259-9">1-86030-259-9</a></li> <li><i>The Future of the NHS</i><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>(contributed a chapter) edited by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Tempest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michelle Tempest (page does not exist)">Dr Michelle Tempest</a>, xpl Publishing, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85811-369-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-85811-369-5">1-85811-369-5</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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man</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071001110431/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article318857.ece">Archived</a> 1 October 2007 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i>The Independent</i>, 12 October 2005.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-timesonline.co.uk-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-timesonline.co.uk_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle/article578941.ece">The Hewitt horror show</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged September 2024">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> <i>The Times</i>, 16 October 2005.</span> </li> <li 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