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}}'''David Anthony Staines''' was the [[British]] [[Home Secretary]] in [[1997]]. | |only = The Dying Days (novel) | ||
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'''David Anthony Staines''' was the new [[British]] [[Home Secretary]] in [[1997]]. | |||
He'd attended [[University of Oxford]]: he'd been unpopular, barely scraped a second in a Law degree, and fallen into politics after meeting his future wife, a local activist. He'd become secretary of the college party (with nobody to run against). After several years of trying to get elected, he finally became MP for [[Eastchester]] | He'd attended [[University of Oxford]]: he'd been unpopular, barely scraped a second in a Law degree, and fallen into politics after meeting his future wife, a local activist. He'd become secretary of the college party (with nobody to run against). After several years of trying to get elected, he finally became MP for [[Eastchester West]] the year after he secured a legal practice. | ||
As a young man, he'd watched Grosvenor and and Guest plant the Union Jack at [[Olympus Mons]]. | |||
In politics, he'd gained the patronage of Lord [[Edward Greyhaven]]. Thanks to this and a (false) reputation for honesty, he'd become Home Secretary. | |||
He was part of Greyhaven's coup plot, though was unaware of many details: he thought the [[Ice Warrior]]s were going to send information and tech plans, not arrive in person. He helped get ''[[Probe 97]]'' created by various private businesses and Lottery funding, believing it was to contact for the putsch. On the eve of the coup, he 'informed' [[Veronica Halliwell|the Director-General]] of [[MI5]] (who thought he was an idiot) of a potential upcoming coup in order to, ironically, get security measures in place for the real one. When the Ice Warriors began killing the ''97'' crew, Staines was left shocked. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | |||
* Staines is a new Home Secretary so [[Lance Parkin]] could hedge his bets on whether the [[Conservative Party]] or [[Labour Party]] would win the upcoming election. In his author's notes for BBCi, he said "one of the amusing things, though, was that Staines could comfortably be either a Conservative or a New Labour Home Secretary.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041030234828/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/ebooks/dyingdays/notes/page2.shtml Author's Notes Chapter 1 (Archived via Wayback)</ref> | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
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