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MAJOR'S MAN LOST IN A NEW LABOUR OF LOVE

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 19991229
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WHAT DO Denis Healey, John Major and Niccolo Machiavelli have in common? The answer is a biographer, in the shape of the political commentator and sketch writer Ed Pearce.

Unlike Major and Machi-avelli, Lord Healey has given Pearce his full authority to rummage amongst his voluminous papers in the attic at his house at Alfris-ton in Sussex.

"I do know him terribly well," says Pearce, whose most recent book, a learned tome on Northern Irish politics 100 years ago, has sadly been ignored by the critics.

"When I wrote to him suggesting the idea, he wrote back within 48 hours saying he'd love ...

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