Obituary

Sir Michael Edwardes: SA-born UK trade-unions buster

Eastern Cape boykie laid ground for Thatcher's hardline approach

06 October 2019 - 00:00 By CHRIS BARRON

Michael Edwardes,  who has died at the age of 88,  was a pugnacious and abrasive South African who in the 1970s and ’80s became the highest-profile, most controversial business leader in the UK...

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