The World - News from Feb. 2, 1986
Keith Joseph, Britain’s education minister and a man often described as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s political guru, said he will retire from politics at the next general election. Joseph, 68, a rightist, is credited with persuading Thatcher to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1975. He will remain in the House of Commons, representing a constituency from the city of Leeds until the election, expected to be held in 1987 or 1988. Thatcher is then expected to give him a peerage and a seat in the House of Lords.
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