- Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notoriousLavender List (1976), was convicted of fraud (1980)
- Cecil Parkinson affair with secretary Sara Keaysresulting in their child, Flora Keays (1983)
- Al Yamamah contract alleged to have been obtained by bribery (1985)
- Westland affair (1986): The Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine resigned from his Cabinet job in a disagreement with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the Westland affair. Mr Heseltine walked out of a meeting at Number 10 concerning his views on the future of the Westland helicopter company were being ignored at the time.
- Jeffrey Archer and the prostitute allegations (1986), and his subsequent conviction for perjury(2001)
- Edwina Currie resigns as a junior Health minister for incorrectly claiming that millions of British eggswere infected with salmonella, stating that "most of [British] egg production" was infected (1988)
- "Homes for votes" gerrymandering scandal (1987–1989)
- BSE (1989)
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