From the archives - Leon Brittan visits York University

In November 1987, one of the ugliest politicians Britain has ever seen visited York University, as a guest of the Conservative Students Association. Back in that era, students would turn out to demonstrate whenever Tory politicians appeared.
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I had a horrendous mental incident with Leon Brittan too. When I visited America in 1992 I was reading something like The New York Times one morning, which ran a profile of Leon Brittan. It started with the words "Leon Brittan appeared, resplendent in bright red suspenders." I sprayed coffee over the paper ... I *really* didn't need that mental image. It took me a while to remember that "suspenders" in American English means something else entirely: braces.