Conservative MP for Surrey Heath and Education Secretary at the time of the Inquiry. A former journalist at the Aberdeen Press and Journal, the Times, the BBC and the Spectator. Told the Inquiry that sometimes "individuals reach for regulation in order to deal with failures of character or morality, and sometimes that regulation is right and appropriate but some of us believe that before the case for regulation is made, the case for liberty needs to be asserted as well".
Ex-wife of Bruce Grobbelaar, the former footballer exposed in 1984 by The Sun for accepting bribes to throw football matches. Deborah Grobbelaar gave evidence of intense media intrusion over 17 years throughout high-profile court cases, bankruptcies and the Grobbelaar’s divorce.
