Branded 'the rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin', Bernard Ingham served as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary for virtually all of her eleven-year premiership, adroitly steering the government's relationship with the media – and the Prime Minister's relationship with the nation. Known for his unswerving loyalty, he robustly defended Thatcher from her critics in both the press and the political jungle, earning him friends and foes in equal measure, as she went on to win three consecutive elections.Thatcher's last days in power, however, saw some of the most remarkable events in British political history, and Ingham was, for once, helpless to turn the tide. These eagerly anticipated diaries cover two turbulent years from January 1989 to December 1990 – a period Ingham terms 'the long, slow assassination' – detailing the succession of crises that led to the Prime Minister's resignation in November 1990, and the critical roles played by the big political beasts of the time.With his trademark gruff candour and wry wit, Ingham's spirited diaries shed new light on Thatcher's final months in No. 10, charting the dramatic downfall of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Principal characters
- List of acronyms
- Introduction: The long, slow assassination
- Chapter 1: January 1989: The year takes its time to get going
- Chapter 2: February 1989: Is this where the Prime Minister’s troubles begin?
- Chapter 3: March 1989: ‘We are a grandmother’
- Chapter 4: April 1989: The Hillsborough football tragedy
- Chapter 5: May 1989: Danger: men at work, stirring
- Chapter 6: June 1989: Open warfare
- Chapter 7: July 1989: My month in the doghouse
- Chapter 8: August 1989: Holiday at last
- Chapter 9: September 1989: All systems go
- Chapter 10: October 1989: Crisis in government
- Chapter 11: November 1989: A real challenger
- Chapter 12: December 1989: Precious little Christmas cheer
- Chapter 13: January 1990: Gorbachev in trouble
- Chapter 14: February 1990: The release of Nelson Mandela
- Chapter 15: March 1990: Has the government hit rock bottom?
- Chapter 16: April 1990: Raw violence
- Chapter 17: May 1990: A damp squib from Michael Heseltine
- Chapter 18: June 1990: Europe bans British beef
- Chapter 19: July 1990: Disaster strikes
- Chapter 20: August 1990: On a war footing
- Chapter 21: September 1990: Are things beginning to come right?
- Chapter 22: October 1990: The Tory Party on its worst behaviour
- Chapter 23: November 1990: A giant brought down by pygmies
- Chapter 24: December 1990: Withdrawal symptoms
- Epilogue
- Index
- Plates
- Copyright
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