Sir Bernard Ingham, the long-serving press secretary for Margaret Thatcher, has passed away at the age of 90 after a short illness, his family has announced.
Sir Bernard, a renowned civil servant and Fleet Street journalist, served under Mrs Thatcher between 1979 and 1990, and was knighted in her resignation honours.
He was press secretary for Mrs Thatcher for all but the first few months of her premiership, and also served as press secretary to Labour MP Tony Benn.
Sir Bernard’s family described him as a journalist to his bones, who started out as a local paper reporter in West Yorkshire and continued writing weekly columns for Express Online and The Yorkshire Post until a few days before he died.
Tributes have poured in for Sir Bernard, who has been described as a great communicator and a lovely man. However, Sir Bernard was also a controversial figure, most notably when he refused to apologise for describing Liverpool fans as ‘tanked up yobs’ and blaming them for the Hillsborough disaster.
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