Sir Malcolm Haversham

THE POLITICIAN

Age: 59
Position: Secretary of State for Defence
Party: Conservative
Education: Eton College; Balliol College, Oxford (PPE) 

A senior statesman whose calm exterior conceals an instinct for control.

The public figure

Sir Malcolm Haversham is the Secretary of State for Defence. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he has cultivated the reputation of an experienced and dependable establishment politician.

The art of influence

Softly spoken, courteous and impeccably controlled, Malcolm understands how political authority depends on access, loyalty and the management of sensitive information.

Truth and power

A technology capable of exposing events thought to be safely buried presents an unsettling prospect to institutions built on secrecy. Malcolm's political world is one in which information is rarely neutral.

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