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'''Michael Cole''' is a PR executive and former television journalist.  He joined Anglia TV as a reporter in 1967 and from 1968 to 1988 was a television correspondent at the [[BBC]]. Then then worked for a decade as Director of Public Affairs at [[Harrods]] and the [[House of Fraser]] group before leaving to set up his own company. <ref>Michael Cole & Company Ltd, [http://www.michaelcole.tv/ Homepage [Accessed 11 April]</ref> Cole was sympathetic to [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Following a lunch at Chequers during her first term in government he wrote to bemoan that: 'One looks in vain in Britain for [a commentator] who will take a radical but rightwing view of events.' <ref>Stephen Bates, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/mar/19/margaret-thatcher-papers-bbc-itv Margaret Thatcher's aversion to the BBC]', Guardian, 19 March 2011.</ref>
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'''Michael Cole''' is a PR executive and former television journalist.  He joined Anglia TV as a reporter in 1967 and from 1968 to 1988 was a television correspondent at the [[BBC]]. Then then worked for a decade as Director of Public Affairs at [[Harrods]] and the [[House of Fraser]] group before leaving to set up his own company. <ref>Michael Cole & Company Ltd, [http://www.michaelcole.tv/ Homepage] [Accessed 11 April]</ref> Cole was sympathetic to [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Following a lunch at Chequers during her first term in government he wrote to bemoan that: 'One looks in vain in Britain for [a commentator] who will take a radical but rightwing view of events.' <ref>Stephen Bates, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/mar/19/margaret-thatcher-papers-bbc-itv Margaret Thatcher's aversion to the BBC]', ''Guardian'', 19 March 2011.</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 06:21, 11 April 2011

Michael Cole is a PR executive and former television journalist. He joined Anglia TV as a reporter in 1967 and from 1968 to 1988 was a television correspondent at the BBC. Then then worked for a decade as Director of Public Affairs at Harrods and the House of Fraser group before leaving to set up his own company. [1] Cole was sympathetic to Margaret Thatcher. Following a lunch at Chequers during her first term in government he wrote to bemoan that: 'One looks in vain in Britain for [a commentator] who will take a radical but rightwing view of events.' [2]

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  1. Michael Cole & Company Ltd, Homepage [Accessed 11 April]
  2. Stephen Bates, 'Margaret Thatcher's aversion to the BBC', Guardian, 19 March 2011.