Ture Lennart Bodström (20 April 1928 – 30 April 2015) was a

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politician born in Gothenburg, who served as the

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in Olof Palme's Social Democratic cabinet from 1982 to 1985. His refusal, without further evidence, to participate in the accusations against the

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regarding its possible submarine operations in Swedish waters led to a motion of confidence against him in the Riksdag, which failed. This is still the only time such a motion has been raised against a single member of a Swedish government (although some have resigned facing the threat of one). Following the 1985 election, Bodström was reassigned to the post of Minister for Education. Bodström's son

Thomas Bodström Thomas Lennart Bodström (born 9 April 1962) is a Swedish former politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He is also a former footballer, and is best remembered for representing Allsvenskan side AIK between 1987 and 1989. Thomas Bo ...

is also a Social Democratic politician. He died one week and three days after his 87th birthday.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodstrom, Lennart 20th-century Swedish politicians 1928 births 2015 deaths Politicians from Gothenburg Swedish Ministers for Education Swedish Ministers for Foreign Affairs Place of death missing Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians Swedish Ministers for Trade Ambassadors of Sweden to Norway