Item 30 - Batting for Brittan

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Depicts Margaret Thatcher swinging a cricket bat, labelled 'Cover-up' at a bell and missing, allowing the ball to hit Leon Brittan directly in the stomach. Heseltine can be seen behind Thatcher and Brittan waiting for ball, but looking happy at the result. Three people are seen dancing in the background who could possibly be [David Owen, David Steel and Neil Kinnock]. Thatcher is saying "Me? Leg before? Nonsense! It wasn't my leg!"

[This likely refers to Thatcher letting Brittan get the heat for a leak in his department and him having to apologise later for misleading the House, after Michael Heseltine asked him a difficult question, and Brittan's eventual resignation. (Sourced from Gibbard's Double Decade Omnibus).]