20 JUNE 1987, page 5

The Spectator

THE UNBALANCED TICKET T he sacking of Mr John Biffen will seem to many to be just another of Mrs Thatch- er's dismissals of men uncongenial to her. Some will say it is an extra......

Whose Divide?

IN the wake of the general election Labour has made much of the `North-South di- v ide', arguing that the Conservative Gov- ernment has no mandate to rule in the north of......