Originally Posted by Sasquatch:
“I had heard that [Derek] was a bit older than that and adjusted his age downwards somewhat ? Has anyone else heard the same ? I got my info from a candidate who stood in the general election earlier this month who used to work with him. Allegedly he was dating a married MP !”

Yup, I saw this posted on another forum:

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“Did it say Derek was 40? This is from April 1999:

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“The new Master of the New Forest Foxhounds is a Black (well, marginal) man. Dashing Derek Laud, 39, who can trace Jamaican roots, has been appointed to lead the prestigious 210-year-old hunt. Last year, Laud was famously asked by hunt saboteurs how he could approve hunting animals in the company of White people who would 200 years ago have been hunting the likes of him. Famously, he replied, 'That is no problem -- 300 years previously, my ancestors would have been eating them.' Derek Laud is the only Black member of the Britain's legendary ultra-conservative Monday Club.”

(http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/McDNLArch7b.htm)

So if that's correct he must be 45 now, not 40.

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