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Douglas Hurd

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Douglas Hurd is a senior British Conservative politician, who served as Foreign Secretary and as Home Secretary in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. He was a former member of the Diplomatic Service and then served as a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1997. As Foreign Secretary, he served during a period of dramatic change at the end of the Cold War and during the early post-Cold War period.