My dear ajross. Sir Bernard Ingham was press secretary to Mrs Thatcher and virtually ran the show. He was born in West Yorkshire to a staunch labour family and started his career as a junior journalist with a Leeds newspaper he then went on to hold a position with the Labour party then switched sides to the conservative party and ended up a VIP as he thought. He lives in the South and bestows himself on the Yorkshire people now and again (thank goodness not to often) but we don,t really consider him to be a Yorkshire man anymore anything else you need to know just ask.