The Iron Lady

11 Sinn Fein poster, 2001.

12 Renwick, Fighting with Allies, p. 230.

13 Garret FitzGerald, All in a Life (Macmillan, 1991), p. 378.

14 Chris Patten, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

15 Institute of Contemporary British History witness seminar, 26 April 1995.

16 Lord Gowrie, Chris Patten, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

17 Dennis C. Blair to Richard V. Allen, National Security Council memorandum, 10 June 1981 (Reagan Library).

18 Mark Stuart, Douglas Hurd:The Public Servant (Mainstream, 1998), p. 135.

19 Carol Thatcher, p. 219.

20 Millar, p. 301.

21 Cole, p. 278.

22 Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 12 October 1984.

23 Speech at Finchley, 20 October 1984.

24 Tyler, p. 245; George Gardiner in Dale, p. 46.

25 Wyatt, p. 415 (5 October 1987).

26 Alistair McAlpine in BBC TV, Thatcher: The Downing Street Years (1993)

27 FitzGerald, p. 517; Stuart, p. 140.

28 Press conference at 12 Downing Street, 19 November 1984.

29 Reagan papers, e.g. CO 167, 216000-226999.

30 Tip O’Neill, Edward Kennedy and others to Reagan, 20 December 1984 (NSC, Box 90902).

31 Record of meeting at Camp David, 22 December 1984 (NSC, Box 90902).

32 Reagan to O’Neill, 9 January 1985, in Boston Globe, 30 June 2002.

33 Thatcher, p. 403.

34 Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 14 October 1988.

35 Institute of Contemporary British History witness seminar, 26 April 1995.

20. Elective Dictatorship

1 Hennessy, Whitehall, p. 314.

2 Charles Powell, interviewed on Thatcher: The Downing Street Years.

3 Interviewed on Thatcher: The Downing Street Years.

4 Interview, Lord Crickhowell.

5 Lawson, p. 918.

6 Penny Junor, John Major: from Brixton to Downing Street (Penguin, 1996), pp. 117 – 19.

7 Lord Weatherill at ICBH witness seminar, 25 February 2002.

8 Thatcher, p. 41.

9 Interview, Lord Wakeham.

10 Ridley, p. 33.

11 Cockerell, pp. 300 – 302, 336 – 7.

12 Sarah Bradford, Elizabeth: A Biography of her Majesty the Queen (Heinemann, 1996), p. 381.

13 Pimlott, p. 460.

14 Lord Hunt in Pimlott, p. 461.

15 Bradford, p. 380.

16 Observer, 5 June 1983.

17 Bradford, p. 389.

18 Reference lost.

19 Thatcher, p. 755.

20 Nationwide, BBC TV, 14 June 1981.

21 Sunday Times, 5 August 1988.

22 Speech to WRVS, 19 January 1981.

23 The Times, 22 November 1989.

24 Nationwide, BBC TV, 14 June 1981.

25 BBC Radio interview, 23 March 1987.

26 Remarks in Downing Street, 3 January 1988.

27 Ibid., 3 March 1989.

28 Cosgrave, p. 14.

29 Interviewed on The Jimmy Young Programme, BBC Radio 2, 26 February 1986.

30 Thomson, p. 50.

31 Thatcher, p. 307.

32 Interview, Lady Young.

33 Speech to Conservative Women’s Conference, 25 May 1988.

34 Lawson, p. 127.

35 Tyler, p. 191.

36 Interviewed on Newsnight, BBC TV, 30 July 1985.

37 Wyatt, p. 359 (4 June 1987).

38 Millar, p. 275.

39 The Times, 27 November 1987.

21. Stumble and Recovery

1 Thatcher, p. 463.

2 Ibid., p. 433.

3 Lord Whitelaw, John Biffen, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

4 House of Commons, 27 January 1986 [Vol. 90, col. 652].

5 The full text of Mayhew’s letter is printed in Tam Dalyell, Misrule: How Mrs Thatcher Misled Parliament from the Sinking of the Belgrano to the Wright Affair (Hamish Hamilton, 1987), pp. 137 – 8.

6 House of Commons, 27 January 1986 [Vol. 90, col. 660].

7 Sun, 7 January 1986; The Times, 7 January 1986.

8 House of Commons, 23 January 1986 [Vol. 90, col. 455].

9 Ibid. [Vol. 90, col. 449 – 50].

10 Thatcher, p. 432.

11 Interview, Lord Younger.

12 The Times, 10 January 1986.

13 House of Commons, 23 January 1986 [Vol. 90, col. 450].

14 Ingham, p. 335.

15 House of Commons, 23 January 1986 [Vol. 90, col. 450].

16 Ibid. [Vol. 90, col. 455].

17 Young, p. 443.