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Michael Howard (born July 7, 1941 in Llanelli, Wales) is a British Conservative Member of Parliament and former Home Secretary (1993-97).

The son of a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Howard attended Peterhouse College, Cambridge and was President of the Cambridge Union in 1962. A barrister, he became a QC in 1982 and entered Parliament in 1983 as member for Folkestone and Hythe.

Ann Widdecombe once famously remarked "there is something of the night about him".

Howard's most embarrassing moment as Home Secretary came when television interviewer, Jeremy Paxman, relentlessly asked him the same question (14 times in all) during an edition of the Newsnight programme. (Howard still did not give a straight answer.)

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