The late former President of the Cambridge Union, Sir John Nott, was identified posthumously for a lot of issues, together with his notorious interview with Robin Day in 1982.
The duo conversed throughout the Conservative Celebration convention when Nott was the Secretary of State for Defence.
It was a tense time, with Nott trying to resign from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after Argentina invaded the Falklands.
Day spent many of the interview with Nott criticising his work and up to date finances cuts from the primary sealord, Admiral Henry Leach.
Nott replied, “You’d hardly count on the primary sea lord to say the rest, would you?”
Day then steered to the Secretary that he was a “transient.. right here at the moment, and if I could say so, gone tomorrow, politician.”
Regardless of asking so politely, it turned out that Nott didn’t respect the sentiment, with the politician eradicating his mic
