The Iron Lady

21 Ibid., 6 November 1975 [Vol. 899, cols 605 – 6].

22 Speech at Kensington Town Hall, 19 January 1976; Collected Speeches, pp. 39 – 47.

23 Thatcher, p. 362.

24 Geoffrey Smith, Reagan and Thatcher (Bodley Head, 1990), p. 1.

25 Ibid., p. 2.

26 Cosgrave, p. 212.

27 Barbara Castle, Fighting All The Way (Macmillan, 1993), p. 513.

28 House of Commons, 7 March 1978 [Vol. 945, cols 1221 – 2].

29 Ibid., 9 May 1978 [Vol. 949, cols 971 – 2].

30 Ibid., 1 November 1978 [Vol. 957, cols 21 – 35].

31 Thatcher, p. 320.

32 The Jimmy Young Programme, BBC Radio 2, 31 January 1978.

8. Thatcherism under Wraps

1 Richard Cockett, Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-Tanks and the Economic Counter- Revolution, 1931 – 83 (HarperCollins, 1994), p. 174.

2 Speech to the Junior Carlton Club, 4 May 1976.

3 David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1979 (Macmillan, 1980), p. 65.

4 Cosgrave, pp. 167 – 8.

5 Margaret Thatcher interviewed by Butler and Kavanagh, 9 August 1978.

6 Iain Macleod Memorial Lecture, Caxton Hall, London, 4.77 July 19 (Collected Speeches, pp. 58 – 69).

7 House of Commons, 25 July 1978 [Vol. 954, col. 1405].

8 Speech to CDU Conference, Hanover, 25 May 1976.

9 Nigel Lawson, The View From Number 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical (Bantam, 1992), Corgi edition, p. 199.

10 House of Commons, 21 March 1978 [Vol. 946, cols 1326 – 8].

11 The Conservative Manifesto, 1979.

12 Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 8 October 1976.

13 Ibid.

14 House of Commons, 20 January 1976 [Vol. 903, cols 1129 – 30].

15 Ibid., 24 January 1978 [Vol. 942, cols 1174 – 5].

16 Ibid.

17 Ibid., 3 March 1977 [Vol. 927, cols 606 – 7].

18 ITN, 4 October 1976.

19 Party Political Broadcast, 4 May 1977.

20 John Cole, As It Seemed To Me (Weidenfeld & Niccolson, 1995), p. 189.

21 Granada TV, World in Action, 27 January 1978.

22 House of Commons, 31 January 1978 [Vol. 943, cols 241 – 5].

23 Ibid., 25 July 1978 [Vol. 954, col.1392].

24 Patrick Cosgrave, The Lives of Enoch Powell (Bodley Head, 1989), p. 444.

25 Enoch Powell interviewed for Brook Associates, The Seventies.

26 Observer, 25 February 1979.

27 Cole, p. 188.

28 The Economist, 31 March 1979.

9. Into Downing Street

1 Butler and Kavanagh, p. 151.

2 House of Commons, 6 December 1978 [Vol. 959, cols 1424 – 5].

3 Ibid., 1 December 1976 [Vol. 921, cols 920 – 21].

4 Ibid., 10 July 1978 [Vol. 953, cols 1027 – 8].

5 Sun, 11 January 1979.

6 BBC TV, 14 February 1979.

7 James Callaghan, Time and Chance (Collins, 1987), p. 561; Kenneth O. Morgan, Callaghan (Oxford 1997), p. 682.

8 Thatcher, p. 432.

9 House of Commons, 28 March 1979 [Vol. 965, cols 461 – 70].

10 Ibid., 28 March 1979 [Vol. 965, cols 470 – 79].

11 Kenneth Baker, The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics (Faber, 1993) pp. 511 – 12.

12 Cecil Parkinson, Right at the Centre (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992), pp. 26 – 7.

13 Cole, p. 188.

14 Spectator, 28 April 1979.

15 Sunday Telegraph, 22 April 1979; BBC Radio News, 21 April 1979.

16 Daily Mail, 19 April 1979.

17 Private information.

18 Butler and Kavanagh, p. 172.

19 Observer, 22 April 1979.

20 Millar, pp. 259 – 60.

21 Murray, p. 198.

22 Daily Mail, 30 April 1979.

23 Conservative party election broadcast, 30 April 1979.

24 Millar, pp. 263 – 4.

25 Election press conference, 2 May 1979.

26 Daily Express, 30 April 1979.

27 Daily Mail, Daily Express, Sun, 3 May 1979.

28 Interview, Lord McAlpine.

29 Butler and Kavanagh, pp. 197 – 9, 343, 393 – 5.

30 Millar, p. 266.

31 Remarks on the steps of Downing Street, 4 May 1979.

10. The Blessed Margaret

1 Guardian, 5 May 1979.

2 Ibid.

3 Margaret Thatcher interviewed in Thatcher: The Downing Street Years (BBC,