Sacking was ‘acutely hurtful’
NZPA-Reuter London The sacked British Foreign Secretary, Francis Pym, broke his silence yesterday about his abrupt dismissal from Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet and described it as “an acutely hurtful experience.” In his first public commeent on his sudden depar-
ture from the Conservative Cabinet two days after Mrs Thatcher’s landslide election victory on June 9, Mr Pym said that he had hoped to continue as Foreign Secretary, and expected to do so. “But instead I was abruptly dismissed,” he said in a brief and bitter speach to a hushed House of Commons.
“That is an acutely hurtful experience, all the more so in the light of press speculation which, if not deliberately inspired, was remarkably informed,” he said.
Mr Pym, replaced by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, in a Cabinet shake-up said: “It was as much the
manner of the event as the event itself that bruised me.”
Mr Pym aged 61, said that by expressing his feelings this once there was no more to be said about the affair and he would not allow what had happened to colour his approach to the future.
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