Leon was one of the best Jews of our generation, says fellow Thatcher Minister Michael Howard
‘Leon Brittan was undoubtedly one of the leading British Jews of his generation. He rendered great service to this country in all the great offices he held, and but for the vagaries of political life might well have gone on to achieve even greater things.
His parents had come to Britain from Lithuania before the war, his father, Joseph, becoming a well-loved GP in Cricklewood, north London. Leon grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household, attended Haberdasher’s Aske School and from there won an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge.’
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