HewasinformedinJanuaryofthe followingyear that he wasselected, and afterafullbackgroundcheck-whichincluded a lie detector andblood test-baker was a confirmedinternforthe FBI.
That trick was successfully performed by Kenneth Baker, the Conservative Party chairman in 1990, when he manged to persuade the media that the real test of his party's popularity was what happened in the Tory showcase councils of Wandsworth and Westminster.