The Iron Lady

1993).

4 BBC interview with Michael Cockerell, 27 April 1979.

5 Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 10.

6 Interview, Sir Kenneth Stowe.

7 The Times, 5 May 1980.

8 Sunday Times, 3 May 1981.

9 Observer, 25 January 1979.

10 Penny Junor, Margaret Thatcher, p. 231.

11 Edward Heath, The Course of My Life, p. 574.

12 Guardian, 7 May 1979.

13 e.g. The Economist, 12 May 1979.

14 Thatcher, p. 28.

15 Millar, p. 319.

16 House of Commons, 9 February 1970 [Vol. 795, col. 1019].

17 Prior, p. 66.

18 Interview, Sir Kenneth Berrill.

19 Sir John Hoskyns, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

20 Interview, Sir Charles Powell.

21 Nigel Lawson, The View From Number 11, p. 128.

22 Alan Clark, Diaries, p. 215 (14 June 1988).

23 Interview, Sir Charles Powell; Woodrow Wyatt, Confessions of an Optimist (Collins, 1985), pp. 345 – 6.

24 Lord Carrington, interviewed for Thatcher:The Downing StreetYears (BBC, 1993).

25 Sir John Hoskyns, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

26 Murray, p. 170.

27 Peter Hennessy, Cabinet (Blackwell, 1986), pp. 97 – 8.

28 Interview, Lord Jenkin of Roding.

29 Murray, p. 200.

30 George Walden, Lucky George: Memoirs of an Anti-Politician (Allen Lane, 1999), p. 191; interview, Dr John Ashworth.

31 Walden, p. 191.

32 Peter Hennessy, Gresham Lecture, 20 February 1996.

33 Parkinson, p. 220.

34 Interviews, Sir John Nott, Sir Peter Middleton.

35 John Hoskyns, Just in Time: Inside the Thatcher Revolution (Aurum, 2000), p. 164.

36 Interview, Sir Kenneth Stowe.

37 Hoskyns, p. 108.

38 Interview, Lord Hunt of Tanworth.

39 Margaret Thatcher interviewed on Aspel and Company, LWT, 19 July 1984.

40 Diana Farr, Five at 10: Prime Ministers Consorts since 1957 (Andre Deutsch, 1985), p. 200.

41 Junor, p. 264; Millar, p. 338.

42 Bernard Ingham, Kill the Messenger (HarperCollins, 1994), p. 293.

43 Millar, p. 327; John Junor, Listening for a Midnight Tram, (Chapman, 1990) p. 264.

44 Alan Clark, Diaries (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993), p. 319 (30 July 1990).

45 Millar, p. 317.

46 Sir Peter Emery in Iain Dale (ed.), As I Said to Denis: The Margaret Thatcher Book of Quotations (Robson Books, 1997), p. 70.

47 Hoskyns, p. 230.

48 Millar, p. 330.

49 Ingham, p. 248.

50 Conservative Party Conference, 15 October 1980.

51 Hennessy, Whitehall, p. 598.

52 Ibid., p. 598.

53 Interviews, Sir Frank Cooper, David Tanner.

54 Thatcher, p. 303.

55 Hennessy, p. 585.

11. Signals of Intent

1 House of Commons, 15 May 1979 [Vol. 967, cols 73 – 87].

2 Ibid., 22 May 1979 [Vol. 967, cols 867 – 72].

3 Thatcher, p. 50.

4 Howe, p. 130.

5 Lawson, p. 35.

6 Thatcher, pp. 42 – 3.

7 Howe, p. 142.

8 House of Commons, 24 July 1979 [Vol. 971, cols 345 – 6].

9 Daily Mirror, 13 June 1979.

10 Murray, p. 225.

11 House of Commons, 13 November 1979 [Vol. 973, col. 1498].

12 Ian Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma, p. 25n; Peter Walker, Staying Power, p. 161.

13 e.g. House of Commons, 19 July 1979, 26 July 1979, 19 February 1980.

14 Thatcher, p. 26.

15 House of Commons, 19 November 1975 [Vol. 901, cols 19 – 28].

16 Clark, p. 219; interview, Sir Douglas Wass.

17 Murray, p. 219.

18 Hoskyns, p. 114.

19 Lord Carrington, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor, BBC TV, 1993.

20 Ibid.

21 Walden, p. 207.

22 Lord Carrington, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

23 Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith (Collins, 1982), p. 113.

24 Nicholas Henderson, Mandarin: The Diary of an Ambassador (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994), p. 269 (24 May 1979).

25 Thatcher, p. 68.

26 Speech on the White House lawn,Washington, DC, 17 December 1979.

27 Henderson, p. 316; Sir Frank Cooper, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

28 Speech to the American Foreign Policy Association, New York, 18 December 1979.

29 Thatcher, p. 88.