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Kenneth Harry Clarke

British politician
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Kenneth Harry Clarke (born July 2, 1940, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England) is a British Conservative politician who served as a cabinet official in the governments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and David Cameron, including as Major’s chancellor of the Exchequer (1993–97) and as Cameron’s lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice (2010–12). He also served as a minister without portfolio (2012–14) in Cameron’s cabinet. A major figure in the Conservative Party for several decades, he...

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