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Lord Patten

As HARDtalk celebrates 20 years on air, Stephen Sackur talks to Lord Patten who was a Conservative Cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher.

As HARDtalk celebrates 20 years on air, Stephen Sackur talks to a Briton who has spent much of his life at the heart of the big political, diplomatic and cultural debates of the age. Lord Patten was a Conservative Cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher and as an ardent advocate of the EU he later became a Commissioner in Brussels. He also served as Britain's last Governor of Hong Kong and is now Chancellor of Oxford University. Is Brexit Britain the stuff of his dreams or nightmares?

30 minutes

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Mon 3 Apr 2017 19:30GMT

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