04-APR-1993
12:12
Gallagher
0491 579838
P.09
MR CHRIS PATTEN
INT
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DAVID FROST
J
LONDON 4 APRIL 1993
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INTERVIEWER:
Is it true that you think, by the way, that you will never be
Prime Minister, you once told me you wanted to be Prime Minister,
do you really think it is unlikely?
MR PATTEN:
I think it is extremely unlikely for a number of reasons.
First
of all, John Major will be Prime Minister for a long time and we
are the same sort of age; secondly, I am not a Member of
Parliament.
INTERVIEWER:
What are the odds on seeing you again on the floor of the House of
Commons less than 50/50 you would say, it was predicted?
A
MR PATTEN:
Yes, I think it is unlikely that I will be in the House of Commons
again. I am reluctant to predict too much because this time last
year I might not have predicted that I would have been having an
interview on Hong Kong this morning.
INTERVIEWER:
Do you think that making yourself Leader of the Conservative Party
is more difficult because you are on the left-wing of the Party,
is that your feeling?