Police arrested him thinking he was the missing murderer Lord Lucan.
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A politician's grand ambitions, missing relief money, and a disappearance that did not last long.
The account presents John Stonehouse as a politician whose ambition and secrecy finally collided in public view. He wanted to be a millionaire first and a prime minister after that, backed Bangladesh independence, and then came under a Department of Trade investigation as…
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