Gordon Reece

Sir James Gordon Reece, Kt was a British journalist and television producer who worked as a political strategist for Margaret Thatcher during the 1979 general election which led to her victory over then prime minister James Callaghan. Reece studied Law at Downing College, Cambridge, and worked in journalism before moving into television production and joining ITN in 1960.

Reece was born in 1929 in Essex, and raised in Liverpool, the son of James Graham Reece, a motor engineer and businessman, and Beatrice Mary Reece , a nurse.

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