The Iron Lady

18 House of Commons, 27 January 1986 [Vol. 90, col. 657].

19 Peter Jenkins, Mrs Thatcher’s Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era (Jonathan Cape, 1987), p. 199.

20 Lord Havers, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

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

22 The Times, 25 January 1986.

23 Millar, p. 310.

24 Ingham, p. 337.

25 TV-am, 7 June 1987.

26 House of Commons, 27 January 1986 [Vol. 90, cols 646 – 51].

27 Clark, p. 135 (27 January 1986).

28 House of Commons, 27 January 1986 [Vol. 90, cols 651 – 8].

29 Clark, p.135 (27 January 1986).

30 House of Commons, 27 January 1986 [Vol. 90, cols 661 – 2].

31 Leon Brittan, interviewed for The Thatcher Factor.

32 Sunday Times, 3 March 1981.

33 Thatcher, p. 147.

34 Cockerell, p. 307.

35 David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1987, pp. 32 – 4.

36 Thatcher, p. 647.

37 David Butler, Andrew Adonis and Tony Travers, Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax (Oxford, 1994), p. 64.

38 Ibid.; Baker, p. 122.

39 Speech to the Scottish Conservative conference, Perth, 10 May 1985.

40 Wyatt, p. 467 (20 December 1987).

41 Lawson, pp. 573 – 4.

42 Speech to the Scottish Conservative conference, Perth, 10 June 1986.

43 Speech to the Scottish Conservative conference, Perth, 15 May 1987.

44 John Simpson, Strange Places, Questionable People (Macmillan, 1998), p. 246.

45 Thatcher, p. 573.

46 The Times, 13 June 1987.

47 Remarks in Downing Street, 12 June 1987.

48 Interview for BBC TV, 12 June 1987.

49 Carol Thatcher, p. 246.

22. No Such Thing as Society

1 Sunday Express, 21 June 1987.

2 Woman’s Own, 31 October 1987.

3 Interview on The Jimmy Young Programme, BBC Radio 2, 27 July 1988.

4 Thatcher, p. 626.

5 Millar, p. 319.

6 Cockerell, p. 332.

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

8 Remarks visiting London docklands, 21 May 1987.

9 Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 9 October 1987.

10 Annual Register 1987, p. 31.

11 Lawson, p. 747; Thatcher, p. 700.

12 Thatcher, pp. 603 – 4.

13 Social Trends, 1987.

14 Annual Register 1987, p. 25.

15 Ibid., p. 9.

16 House of Commons, 15 December 1987 [Vol. 124, col. 918].

17 Simon Jenkins, p. 77.

18 Eric Jacobs and Robert Worcester, We British: Britain under the Moriscope (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990).

19 Timmins, p. 508.

20 BBC TV, 24 July 1987.

21 Nicholas Ridley, ‘My Style of Government’: The Thatcher Years (Hutchinson, 1991), p. 125.

22 Thatcher, Downing Street Years, p. 654.

23 Speech to 1922 Committee, 20 July 1989.

24 House of Commons, 20 July 1989 [Vol. 157, cols 516 – 17].

25 Thatcher, p. 654.

26 Wyatt,Vol. 2, p. 158 (17 September 1989).

27 House of Commons, 20 March 1990 [Vol. 169, col. 1008].

28 Thatcher, p. 658.

29 Clark, p. 287 (25 March 1990).

30 Chris Patten on BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs, 3 November 1996.

31 House of Commons, 28 November 1989 [Vol. 162, col. 576].

32 Speech to Conservative Local Government conference, 8 March 1989.

33 William Shawcross, Murdoch (Chatto & Windus, 1992), p. 511.

34 Wyatt,Vol. 2, p. 31 (12 February 1989).

35 Speech at the Mansion House, 17 October 1985.

36 The Times, 31 March 1987.

37 Thatcher, p. 701.

38 Timmins, p. 450.

39 Lawson, pp. 815, 824.

40 Speech to Conservative Central Council, Buxton, 19 March 1988.

41 Thatcher, pp. 689 – 90.

42 Keegan, Mr Lawson’s Gamble, p. 188.

43 Thatcher, p. 703.

44 Ridley, p. 211.

45 Press conference, 14 June 1989.

46 Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 99 (4 June 1989).

23. A Diet of Brussels

1 Thatcher, p. 558.

2 Ibid., p. 742.

3 Major, p. 345.

4 Thatcher, p. 744.

5 Cradock, p. 124.