Which female newsreader threw a glass of wine over Tory MP Jonathan Aitken in 1983
Jonathan Aitken of TV-AM, when broadcaster Anna Ford threw her wine at him to express her outrage at both his behaviour and the unwelcome consequent transformation of the TV station. Aitken wrote a highly confidential letter to Thatcher in early 1980, dealing with allegations that the former Director-General of MI5, Sir Roger Hollis, had been a double agent also working for the Soviet Union. This information had come to Aitken from retired CIA spymaster James Angleton. Espionage historian Chapman Pincher obtained a copy of the letter, and used former MI5 officers Peter Wright and Arthur Martin as his main additional secret sources,
Jonathan Aitken Jonathan Aitken Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is an Irish-born British former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom (1974–97), and a former Cabinet minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-months prison sentence, of which he served seven months. He was the president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Aitken was also a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. Aitken's parents were Sir William Traven Aitken, KBE, a former Conservative MP, and The Honourable Penelope Aitken, MBE, JP, daughter of John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. Aitken is a great-nephew of