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This is the kind of thing you either know or you don't – and I don't mind admitting that until I heard this question, I didn't.

It might have been easier to have a stab at it if the question had been something like "Which former politician ... "

Lord Ashcroft's collection (which amounts to 152 medals) was put on permanent display in the Imperial War Museum in 2010, in a purpose–built gallery that was paid for by Lord Ashcroft himself.

Of course, if I'd been to the Imperial War Museum (since 2010), I daresay I'd have known the answer to the question.

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