Margaret Thatcher is a British icon. There is no denying her place in history as Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister. The reaction to her death confirms that twenty-three years after leaving office she still bestrides the political scene, both in Britain and around the world, like a colossus. Margaret Thatcher was elected to Parliament in 1959. Twenty years later she became Britain's first woman Prime Minister. She achieved two further landslide election victories, making her the longest-serving British Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool. She resigned in November 1990 after eleven-and-a-half years at the pinnacle of British politics. Memories of Margaret Thatcher brings together over 200 personal reminiscences and anecdotes from those who - whether political friends or opponents, observing her from the press gallery or toiling to keep her flame alight in the constituencies - experienced close encounters with the Iron Lady. They include, among others, Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, Norman Tebbit, Cecil Parkinson, Matthew Parris, Michael Howard, Paddy Ashdown, Adam Boulton, Lord Ashcroft, Sebastian Coe, Boris Johnson, Ann Widdecombe, William Hague, Sir Bernard Ingham, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Esther Rantzen, Dame Ann Leslie, David Davis, Liam Fox and many more. Amusing, revealing, sympathetic and occasionally antagonistic, these observations combine to give a unique portrait of the political and personal life of a remarkable woman. They show the deeply private and compassionate nature of a woman who will forever be known as the Iron Lady.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Margaret Thatcher
- Boris Johnson
- Lord Biffen
- Adam Boulton
- Lord Hamilton
- Hugo Young
- Lord Whitelaw
- Sir Alfred Sherman
- Lord Powell
- Andrew Tyrie
- Lord MacGregor
- Sir George Gardiner
- Lord Mackay
- Matthew Parris
- Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC
- Baroness Jenkin
- Michael Thornton
- Lord Owen
- Lord Spicer
- Mike Freer
- Robert Halfon
- Lord Jenkin
- Lord Selkirk
- Sir Peter Emery
- Lord Armstrong
- Lord Coe
- Admiral Sir John Woodward
- Lord Freeman
- Sir Teddy Taylor
- Lord Palumbo
- Lord Burns
- Václav Klaus
- Lord Bellwin
- Lord Ridley
- Lord Marlesford
- Oliver Letwin
- John Redwood
- Sir Tony Baldry
- Sir Malcolm Rifkind
- Lord Flight
- Tom Utley
- James Baker III
- Lord Butler
- Alan Clark
- Ronald Reagan
- Sir Ronald Millar
- Lord Howe
- Lord Crickhowell
- Baroness Trumpington
- Frank Field
- Baroness Fookes
- Lord Lamont
- Olga Polizzi
- Andrew Mitchell
- Lord Hill
- Conor Burns
- Lord McNally
- Lord Baker
- Sir Gerald Kaufman
- Lord Jopling
- Alexander Haig
- Lord Steel
- Mark Menzies
- Andrew Roberts
- Edward Pearce
- Daniel Hannan
- Peter Riddell
- Sir Stephen Sherbourne
- Chris Moncrieff
- Sir John Major
- Neil Hamilton
- Philip Davies
- Lord Dobbs
- Lord Hattersley
- Lord Wakeham
- Sir Robin Day
- Cheryl Gillan
- Terry Major-Ball
- Patrick Minford
- Baroness Nicholson
- Lord Lawson
- Bob Hawke
- Baroness Williams
- Christine Hamilton
- Kenneth Clarke
- Lord Deedes
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Malcolm Fraser
- Mark Prisk
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- Tony Benn
- Eric Forth
- Harvey Thomas
- Shimon Peres
- Sir Rex Hunt
- Lord Gilbert
- Carol Thatcher
- Baroness Seccombe
- Sir Richard Needham
- Andrew Rowe
- Lord Fowler
- Margaret King
- Linda McDougall
- Ruud Lubbers
- Lord Waddington
- Helmut Kohl
- Richard Stone
- Earl Ferrers
- Sir Christopher Lawson
- Viscount Tonypandy
- Baroness Cox
- Lord Young
- Major-General Julian Thompson
- Lord King
- John Blundell
- Lord Deben
- David Davis
- Alan Duncan
- Lord Forsyth
- Sir David Mitchell
- Lord Waldegrave
- Edwina Currie
- Lord Thomas
- Greg Knight
- Lord Denham
- Andrew Rosindell
- Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd
- Lord Harris
- Lord Tebbit
- Lord Davies
- Lord Robertson
- Sir Richard Body
- The Earl of Caithness
- Robert Key
- Lord Renton
- Alex Aiken
- Baroness Browning
- John Whittingdale
- Ann Widdecombe
- Michael Brunson
- Sir Edward du Cann
- Lord Howard
- Michael Cockerell
- Lord Ashdown
- Julia Langdon
- William Hague
- Bernard Jenkin
- Andrew Riley
- Eric Pickles
- Sir John Junor
- Sir Gerald Howarth
- Baroness Shephard
- Lech Wałęsa
- Sir Bernard Ingham
- Michael Reagan
- Cynthia Crawford
- Baroness Warsi
- Kate Adie
- Francis Maude
- Sue Cameron
- Keith Simpson
- Peter Lilley
- Lord Wilson
- Patrick Nicholls
- Baroness Miller
- Nicholas Finney
- Michael York
- Lord Renwick
- Jerry Hayes
- Richard Kaye
- Deborah Slattery
- Paul Schooling
- Piers Morgan
- Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Paul Elliott
- Lord Mawhinney
- Dominic Prince
- George Osborne
- Michael Brown
- Francesca Makins
- Lord Saatchi
- Nicholas Bennett
- Steve Nallon
- Esther Rantzen
- Andrew MacKay
- Henry Kissinger
- Tim Quint
- Christopher Collins
- Crispin Blunt
- Anthony Seldon
- Dame Ann Leslie
- Sir Nicholas Winterton
- Adam Afriyie
- Brian Monteith
- Alistair Burt
- Steven Norris
- Sir John Nott
- Elizabeth Cotterell
- Nigel Fletcher
- Hartley Booth
- Lord Plumb
- Sir Richard Parsons
- Baroness Chalker
- Janice Richards
- Lord Cormack
- Petronella Wyatt
- Sir John Stanley
- Christopher Chope
- Nancy Reagan
- Laurence Robertson
- Lord Naseby
- Eleanor Laing
- Lord Parkinson
- David Amess
- Liam Fox
- Plates
- Copyright
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