05/07/2018
The seventieth anniversary of the National Health Service was marked by BBC-2's Newsnight programme with a look back at the AIDS Awareness Campaigns of the middle to late eighties. Lord Norman Fowler, the Health Secretary who took on the entrenched views of several other members of the Conservative Cabinet and the tabloid press, explained how the striking campaign was a careful balancing act to get a public health message across whilst not being too sexual for middle England. Lord Fowler was questioned about the rumour that he had had to explain to then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher what oral sex and gay sex were. Lord Fowler said that no, Mrs Thatcher had understood the “mechanics” of the situation.
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