<P> Widdecombe has a fondness for cats and has a section of her website devoted to all the pet cats with which she has shared her life . Widdecombe adopted two goats at the Buttercups Goat Sanctuary in Boughton Monchelsea near Maidstone, although one later died . In an interview, Widdecombe talked about her appreciation of music despite describing herself as "pretty well tone - deaf". </P> <P> Her non-political accomplishments include being a popular novelist . Widdecombe also currently writes a weekly column for the Daily Express . </P> <P> In January 2011 Widdecombe was President of the North of England Education Conference in Blackpool, and gave a speech there supporting selective education and opposing the ban on new grammar schools being built . She has also become a patron of The Grace Charity for M.E. </P> <P> Widdecombe revealed, in an April 2012 interview with Matt Chorley of The Independent, that she was writing her autobiography, which she described as "rude about all and sundry, but an amount of truth is always necessary". </P>

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