Former Liberal leader breaks down as he discusses father's criticism of UK crackdown on Mau Mau
It's an unsettling experience to see a politician as dapper as David Steel suddenly breaking down and weeping as his face contorts in a losing battle for self-control.
Tears don't become Baron Steel of Aikwood, the former Liberal leader. He has survived a good deal: from the humiliating jibes about him being Dr David Owen's puppet when the SDP amalgamated with his party to form the Liberal Democrats, to early-stage prostate cancer in 2001.
Sir David Steele believes Mau Mau camps were our Guantanamo Bay
Yet his steely (no other word for it) self-possession had never deserted him until he was finally ambushed into tears by the filming of a television documentary in which he investigates the subversive history of his Presbyterian minister father, David Steel Senior. The Very Reverend David, who died aged 92 in 2002, was a classic example of a turbulent priest, in true Thomas à Becket tradition.
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Tears don't become Baron Steel of Aikwood, the former Liberal leader. He has survived a good deal: from the humiliating jibes about him being Dr David Owen's puppet when the SDP amalgamated with his party to form the Liberal Democrats, to early-stage prostate cancer in 2001.
Sir David Steele believes Mau Mau camps were our Guantanamo Bay
Yet his steely (no other word for it) self-possession had never deserted him until he was finally ambushed into tears by the filming of a television documentary in which he investigates the subversive history of his Presbyterian minister father, David Steel Senior. The Very Reverend David, who died aged 92 in 2002, was a classic example of a turbulent priest, in true Thomas à Becket tradition.