The Iron Lady

pp. 174 – 8.

35 The Times, 22 May 1982.

36 Private information.

37 Thatcher, p. 230.

38 Henderson, pp. 468 – 70.

39 House of Commons, 14 June 1982 [Vol. 25, col. 700].

40 Ibid., 22 June 1982 [Vol. 26, cols 430 – 32].

41 The Times, 5 July 1982.

42 Matthew Parris, Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics (Viking, 2002), p. 294.

43 Sked and Cook, p. 418.

44 e.g. House of Commons, 23 November 1982, 18 January 1983 [Vol. 32, col. 705;Vol. 35, col. 178]

45 Carol Thatcher, p. 201.

14. Falklands Effect

1 Daily Express, 23 July 1982.

2 BBC Radio News, 22 July 1982.

3 Daily Express, 23 July 1982.

4 The Times, 16 August 1982.

5 Daily Express, 23 July 1982.

6 House of Commons, 3 November 1982 [Vol. 31, col. 18].

7 Ibid., 10 March 1983 [Vol. 38, col. 949].

8 Ibid., 12 May 1983 [Vol. 42, col. 917].

9 Speech in Finchley, 22 October 1982.

10 Conservative Party Conference, 8 October 1982.

11 Thatcher, p. 284.

12 Nicholas Timmins, The Five Giants, p. 372.

13 House of Commons, 15 May 1979 [Vol. 967, col. 81].

14 Ibid., 24 March 1983 [Vol. 39, col. 1013].

15 Ibid., 27 July 1982 [Vol. 228, col. 1226].

16 Kaufman is usually credited with the remark, but David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1983 (Macmillan, 1984) p. 62, attributes it to Shore.

17 The Times, 5 May 1980.

18 House of Commons, 5 June 1980 [Vol. 985, col. 1671].

19 Peter Hennessy, Cabinet, pp. 154 – 5.

20 Ibid., 24 July 1980 [Vol. 989, col. 761].

21 Ibid., 21 January 1982 [Vol. 16, col. 412].

22 Geoffrey Smith, Reagan and Thatcher, p. 113.

23 House of Commons, 26 June 1980 [Vol. 987, col. 742].

24 Ibid., 15 July 1980 [Vol. 988, col. 1229].

25 Ibid., 25 November 1982 [Vol. 32, col. 1010].

26 Ibid., 14 December 1982 [Vol. 34, col. 121].

27 Conservative Party Conference, 10 October 1982.

28 Press conference with Chancellor Kohl, London, 4 February 1983.

29 House of Commons, 28 April 1983 [Vol. 41, col. 994].

30 Carol Thatcher, Diary, pp. 34 – 5.

31 Ibid., p. 57.

32 e.g. speech at Fleetwood, 7 June 1983.

33 Speech at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, 31 May 1983.

34 Remarks electioneering in Norfolk, 25 May 1983; Carol Thatcher, Diary, p. 52.

35 Carol Thatcher, Diary, p. 104.

36 Ibid., p. 53.

37 Robin Day, Grand Inquisitor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), p. 232.

38 Cockerell, p. 282.

39 Butler and Kavanagh, p. 167.

40 Cockerell, p. 283.

41 Carol Thatcher, Diary, p. 100.

42 Butler and Kavanagh, pp. 112 – 13.

43 Thomson, p. 80.

44 Butler and Kavanagh, p. 160.

45 Ibid., p. 296.

46 Francis Pym, The Politics of Consent (Hamish Hamilton, 1984), p. ix.

47 Thatcher, p. 309.

15. Popular Capitalism

1 The Times, 16 June 1983.

2 IRN interview, 28 July 1983.

3 Sunday Express, 16 October 1983, cited in Sara Keays, A Question of Judgment (Quintessential Press, 1985), p. 219.

4 Alan Clark, Diaries, pp. 37 – 8 (1 September 1983).

5 John Major, The Autobiography (HarperCollins, 1999), p. 108.

6 Interview with John Cole, BBC, 27 May 1983.

7 House of Commons, 31 January 1984 [Vol. 53, col.138].

8 Thatcher, p. 673.

9 Sked and Cook, p. 474.

10 House of Commons, 31 July 1984 [Vol. 65, col. 248].

11 Clark, p. 109 (24 April 1985).

12 e.g. Observer, 1 July 1990, cited in Tyler, p. 53n., though Tyler thinks she never actually said it.

13 Conservative Party Conference, Brighton, 12 October 1984.

14 William Keegan, Mr Lawson’s Gamble (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989), p. 140.

15 Ibid., p. 158.

16 The Times, 15 May 1985.

17 Thatcher, p. 418.

18 William Keegan, Mrs Thatcher’s Economic Experiment (Penguin, 1984), p. 139.

19 Speech at Conservative Party Conference, 11 October 1985.

20 Lady Thatcher, interviewed on Thatcher: The Downing Street Years.

21 Lawson, p. 499.

22 Nigel Lawson, interviewed on Thatcher: The Downing Street Years.

23 Lawson, p. 500.