The Iron Lady

Secretariat NSC, Box 90902).

33 Memorandum of a conversation at Camp David, 22 January 1984 (NSC, Box 90902).

34 Thatcher, p. 509.

35 Memorandum of meeting between Mrs Thatcher and George Shultz, 17 January 1987.

36 Thatcher, p. 510.

37 Press conference at Cancun, Mexico, 23 October 1981.

38 Gerald James, In the Public Interest (Little, Brown, 1995), p. 67.

39 The Times, 27 September 1985.

40 Observer, 12 January 1986.

41 House of Commons, 17 January 1984, 24 January 1984 [Vol. 52, cols 159, 766]; Weekend World, 15 January 1984; Panorama, 9 April 1984.

42 Paul Halloran and Mark Hollingsworth, Thatcher’s Gold: The Life and Times of Mark Thatcher (Simon & Schuster, 1995), pp. 178 – 86.

43 Andrew Marr, Ruling Britannia (Michael Joseph, 1995).

44 Note of meeting between Mrs Thatcher and Caspar Weinberger, 29 February 1984 (Executive Secretariat NSC, Box 90902).

45 Not the Scott Report (Private Eye, 1994), p. 13.

46 Ibid., p. 14.

47 Alan Friedman, Spider’s Web: Bush, Saddam, Thatcher and the Decade of Deceit (Faber, 1993), p. 251.

48 The Times, 9 November 1989.

49 The Scott Report (HMSO, 1994), G12, 30.

50 House of Commons, 4 December 1986 [Vol. 106, col. 1078].

51 Scott Report, G12, 30.

52 Ibid., D2, 328 – 30.

53 Not the Scott Report, p. 9.

54 Ibid., p. 24.

55 Ibid.

18. Enemies Within

1 House of Commons, 26 January 1984 [Vol. 52, col. 1047].

2 Hennessy, Cabinet, pp. 32 – 3.

3 Young, p. 367.

4 Speech at NUM conference, 4 July 1983.

5 Annual Register 1984, p. 8.

6 Michael Crick, Scargill and the Miners (Penguin, 1985), p. 108.

7 The Times, 28 March 1984.

8 Thatcher, p. 340.

9 House of Commons, 13 March 1984 [Vol. 56, col. 279].

10 Speech to farmers at Banbury, Oxfordshire, 30 May 1984.

11 House of Commons, 15 March 1984; [Vol. 56, cols 512 – 13] Panorama, 9 April 1984 .

12 Sir Ian MacGregor on BBC TV, The Downing Street Years, 1993.

13 Yorkshire Post, 20 July 1984.

14 Wendy Webster, Not a Man to Match Her: The Marketing of the Prime Minister (Women’s Press, 1990), p. 159.

15 Sunday Mirror, 3 October 1984.

16 Interview, Sir Michael Partridge.

17 BBC TV, Thatcher: The Downing Street Years, 1993.

18 Speech at Conservative Party Conference, 12 October 1984.

19 Daily Express, 31 December 1984.

20 The Times, 4 March 1985.

21 Simon Jenkins, p. 156; Marr, p. 104.

22 Pym, p. 19.

23 House of Commons, 16 December 1982 [Vol. 34, col. 476].

24 Wyatt, Vol. 1 p. 229, (24 November 1986).

25 The Woman at No. 10, ITV, 29 March 1983.

26 Weekend World, 6 January 1980.

27 Millar, p. 284.

28 Address at St Lawrence Jewry, 4 March 1981.

29 Wyatt, p. 496 (7 February 1988).

30 The Times, 26 July 1990.

31 Thatcher, pp. 509 – 10.

32 Lawson, p. 256.

33 Sunday Times, 8 May 1988.

34 Tom Wilkie in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (eds), The Thatcher Effect: A Decade of Change (Oxford, 1989), pp. 316 – 29.

35 Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 13 October 1989.

36 George Urban, Diplomacy and Disillusion at the Court of Margaret Thatcher: An Insider’s View (Tauris, 1996), p. 23.

37 Thatcher, p. 267.

38 Michael Leapman, The Last Days of the Beeb (Allen & Unwin, 1986), p. 32.

39 House of Commons, 14 March 1985 [Vol. 75, col. 429].

40 Alastair Hetherington in Kavanagh and Seldon, p. 298.

41 Wyatt, p. 160 (29 June 1986).

42 David Butler and Gareth Butler, British Political Facts, p. 499.

43 Wyatt, p. 158 (15 November 1989).

44 Andrew Neil, Full Disclosure (Macmillan, 1986), p. 137.

45 Speech to the British Society of Magazine Editors, 29 July 1988.

19. Irish Dimension

1 Interviews, Tom King, Sir Frank Cooper.

2 Airey Neave Memorial Lecture, 2 March 1980.

3 Bruce Arnold, Haughey: His Life and Unlucky Deeds (HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 167 – 8.

4 Ibid, pp. 173 – 4.

5 House of Commons, 20 November 1980 [Vol. 994, col. 27].

6 House of Commons, 14 May 1981 [Vol. 4, col. 881].

7 Sinn Fein poster commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the hunger strikes, 2001.

8 House of Commons, 14 May 1981 [Vol. 4, col. 881].

9 Speech to Conservative Women’s Conference, London, 20 May 1981.

10 Speech at Stormont, 28 May 1981.