Ted Francis, the man at the centre of the Lord Archer scandal, appears at Talk Radio studios in London, November 23, where he appeared on Derek Hatton's radio show. Francis, a former friend of disgraced Tory mayor candidate Jeffrey Archer, told Talk Radio he assumed he was being asked to protect Lord Archer from a possible divorce when the peer requested him to say they had been having dinner together on a night in September 1986, the previous year.

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