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However Chataway was eager to get back into Parliament, and the opportunity came in a byelection in Chichester in May 1969.

He then resigned as ILEA Leader.

With the return of a Conservative Government in 1970 after refusing the offer of Sports Minister he was appointed by Edward Heath as Minister for Posts and Telecommunications and made a Privy Counsellor.

In this post he took charge of introducing commercial radio for the first time, ending the BBC monopoly.

After a reshuffle in April 1972 he was Minister for Industrial Development.