He worked as a delivery boy, a lather boy, a lift boy and a bell boy before entering the housepainting trade, mastering the crafts of graining and marbling just in time to be enlisted as a boiler-stoker in the Second World War.

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John Walsh's Tory Boy documentary has since landed award nominations, but again its central premise was firmly rejected by Stuart Bell.

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