very 'can-do person' who was on top of everything. She presented differently from the way she really was. She was a 'hail fellow well met' type of person - it was a pretence.

Image caption Pompidou remained in office despite being gravely ill

"She projected an image of herself as being available to everybody but she wasn't. She was a very private person."

Mowlam had been unwell for 18 months before she was finally diagnosed with cancer and at the time the only person she told was her husband.

"And although Mo [later] told Tony Blair he nevertheless made her secretary of state for Northern Ireland," Langdon says.

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