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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