Whitehall, By Colin Brown
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The author, who is The Independent's deputy political editor, notes that security has been much tightened since the Eighties when he encountered Geoffrey Howe taking Budget, his Jack Russell, for a walk at the back of No 11 Downing St. In 1991, the IRA launched mortars at No 10 during a Cabinet meeting.
"I think we'd better start again," said John Major after "a huge splinter... stabbed the wall like a dagger". Other dramas on this street include the execution of Charles I by axemen with false beards.
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