The Iron Lady

33 House of Commons, 26 June 1979 [Vol. 969, col. 285].

34 Phillip Whitehead, The Writing on the Wall, p. 371.

35 House of Commons, 19 July 1979 [Vol. 970, col. 1989].

36 Guardian, 23 August 1979.

37 House of Commons, 15 May 1980 [Vol. 984, col. 1748].

38 LWT, Weekend World, 6 January 1980; House of Commons, 22 January 1980 [Vol. 977, col. 197].

39 Cockerell, p. 260.

40 House of Commons, 3 July 1980 [Vol. 987, col. 1759].

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

42 Ibid., 12 June 1979 [Vol. 968, col. 229].

43 Ibid., 19 June 1979 [Vol. 968, col. 1114].

44 Ibid., 4 November 1981 [Vol. 12, col. 23].

45 Ibid., 28 February 1980, 5 February 1981 [Vol. 998, col. 481]; 18 June 1981 [Vol. 6, col. 1175]; 30 July 1981 [Vol. 9, col. 980]; 4 February 1982 [Vol. 17, col. 539].

46 Ibid., 5 November 1981 [Vol. 12, cols 440 – 41].

47 Prior, p. 125.

48 Thatcher, pp. 114 – 15.

49 Morison Halcrow, Keith Joseph: A Single Mind (Macmillan, 1989), p. 149.

50 LWT, Weekend World, 1 February 1982.

51 House of Commons, 12 February 1982 [Vol. 998, col. 979].

52 Ibid. 10 February 1982 [Vol. 998, col. 737].

53 Thatcher, p. 141.

54 Lawson, p. 107; Howe, p. 221.

55 Thatcher, p. 132.

56 Philip Stephens, Politics and the Pound: The Tories, the Economy and Europe (Macmillan, 1996), p. 21.

57 The Times, 30 March 1981.

58 Gilmour, p. 35.

59 The Times, 13 July 1981.

60 Daily Telegraph, 11 March 1981; The Times, 11 March 1981.

61 Ranelagh, p. 235.

62 Conservative Central Council, Cardiff, 28 March 1981.

63 Thatcher, p. 574.

64 Hugo Young, One of Us: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher (Macmillan, 1989, 1991), p. 239.

65 Whitehead, p. 387.

66 House of Commons, 14 July 1981 [Vol. 8, cols 973 – 6].

67 Ibid., 16 July 1981 [Vol. 8, col. 1383].

68 Hoskyns, p. 301.

69 Nicholas Henderson, Mandarin, pp. 404 – 6.

70 Howe, p. 169.

71 Howe, p. 223.

72 The Times, 15 September 1981.

73 Prior, p. 173.

74 Conservative Party Conference, 14 October 1981.

75 Conservative Party Conference, 16 October 1981.

76 House of Commons, 28 October 1981 [Vol. 10, cols 881 – 7].

77 IRN interview, 31 December 1981.

13. Salvation in the South Atlantic

1 Speech in Finchley, 22 October 1982.

2 House of Commons, 2 April 1982 [Vol. 21, cols 633 – 8].

3 Peter Hennessy, The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945 (Allen Lane, 2000), p. 104.

4 Sarah Curtis (ed.), The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 2 (Macmillan, 1999), p. 245, citing Norman Tebbit (22 February 1990).

5 Hennessy, p. 414.

6 Peter de la Billiere, Looking for Trouble (HarperCollins, 1994).

7 Speech at Conservative Party Conference, Brighton, 11 October 1978; BBC TV Panorama, 26 April 1982; House of Commons, 4 May 1982, 11 May 1982, 13 May 1982, 20 May 1982, 15 June 1982 etc.

8 Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins, The Battle for the Falklands (Michael Joseph, 1983), p. 271.

9 Sunday Times, 7 June 1987.

10 Patrick Cosgrave, reported in The Times, 26 May 1995.

11 ITN interview, 5 April 1982.

12 Ronald Millar, From the Wings, p. 298.

13 Interview with Miriam Stoppard, Woman to Woman, Yorkshire TV, 19 November 1985.

14 Nigel West, The Secret War for the Falklands (Warner Books, 1997), p. 230.

15 Hastings and Jenkins, p.167; Geoffrey Smith, Reagan and Thatcher, p. 86.

16 Caspar Weinberger, Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years at the Pentagon (Michael Joseph, 1990), p. 149.

17 Thatcher, p. 205.

18 Ibid., p. 219.

19 House of Commons, 29 April 1982 [Vol. 22, col. 981].

20 Ibid., 6 May 1982 [Vol. 23, col. 282].

21 Lord Lewin, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

22 Admiral ‘Sandy’ Woodward, One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander (HarperCollins, 1992), pp. 148 – 63.

23 House of Commons, 4 May 1982 [Vol. 23, col. 16].

24 Thatcher, p. 215.

25 e.g. Paul Hirst, After Thatcher, p. 106.

26 Hastings and Jenkins, p. 196.

27 Interview, Lord Crickhowell; see also Lawson, pp. 126 – 7; and Hennessy, p. 420.

28 Interview, Sir John Nott.

29 House of Commons, 13 May 1982 [Vol. 23, col. 942].

30 Smith, p. 93.

31 House of Commons, 20 May 1982 [Vol. 24, cols 477 – 83].

32 Interview, Sir Frank Cooper.

33 Carol Thatcher, p. 197.

34 Andrew Thomson, Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Within (Allen Lane, 1989),