Overview

In the latest how-to-do-it guide, Michael Cockerell films behind the scenes in the normally secretive Home Office. As well as crime, prisons and MI5, the Home Secretary is responsible for nudist beaches, mad dogs and massage parlours. Jack Straw and his predecessors talk candidly about the Cabinet's most dangerous and fascinating job.

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Michael Cockerell

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Kenneth Baker

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Robert Carr

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Ken Clarke

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Brian Cubbon

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Michael Howard

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Douglas Hurd

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Roy Jenkins

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Merlyn Rees

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Jack Straw

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David Waddington

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Richard Wilson

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