The Iron Lady

53 Ibid., D3 164 – 5.

54 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 320.

55 Press conference at Aspen, Colorado, 2 August 1990.

56 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 320.

57 Ingham, p. 262.

58 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 315.

59 Wyatt,Vol. 2, p. 342 (10 August 1990).

60 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 352.

61 Barbara Bush, A Memoir (Scribners’s, New York, 1995), p. 353.

62 Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh, The Gulf Conflict, 1990 – 91 (Faber, 1993), p. 177.

63 BBC, 7 January 1996.

64 House of Commons, 28 October 1990 [Vol. 178, col. 498].

65 Sir Michael Carver, Tightrope Walking: British Defence Policy since 1945 (Hutchinson, 1992), p. 163.

66 Thatcher, Downing Street Years, p. 826.

67 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 407.

68 Thatcher, p. 828.

69 De la Billiere, pp. 401 – 2.

70 Carver, p. 163.

71 Cradock, p. 179.

72 Press conference in Paris, 19 November 1990.

25. On and On

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

2 Carol Thatcher, pp. 253 – 4.

3 Neil, p. 236.

4 Wyatt, Vol. 2, pp. 82 – 6 (7 May 1989).

5 Interview for IRN, 24 November 1989.

6 Annual Register 1989, p. 21.

7 Butler and Butler, pp. 256 – 7.

8 Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 169 (9 October 1989).

9 Ranelagh, p. 306.

10 House of Commons, 13 June 1989 [Vol. 154, col. 702].

11 Daily Mail, 9 October 1989.

12 Financial Times, 18 October 1989.

13 Lawson, p. 959.

14 Thatcher, pp. 715 – 18; Lawson, pp. 960 – 64.

15 Major, p. 134.

16 Ibid., p. 133.

17 Thatcher, p. 717.

18 Stuart, p. 234.

19 Baker, p. 309.

20 Daily Express, 28 October 1989.

21 Lawson, p. 967.

22 Interviewed on The Walden Interview, 29 October 1989; reprinted in David Cox (ed.), The Walden Interviews (Boxtree, 1900), pp. 30 – 52.

23 Nigel Lawson, interviewed on The Walden Interview, 5 November 1989, loc. cit., pp. 53 – 75.

24 Stuart, p. 236.

25 Major, p. 155.

26 Antony Seldon, Major: A Political Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), p. 112.

27 Cole, p. 349.

28 Private conversation, William Waldegrave, 10 December 1997.

29 Wyatt,Vol. 2, p. 189 (3 November 1989).

30 Ibid., p. 260 (21 March 1990).

31 Ibid., p. 288 (6 May 1990).

32 Thatcher, p. 719.

33 Wyatt, Vol. 2, pp. 339 – 40 (31 July 1990).

34 Ibid., p. 343.

35 David Waddington, in Dale, p. 217.

36 Major, p. 156.

37 Seldon, p. 104.

38 Major, p. 161.

39 Press conference in Downing Street, 5 October 1990.

40 Financial Times, 6 October 1990.

41 Major, p. 163.

42 Charles Powell on BBC TV, 16 September 1997.

43 Major, pp. 339 – 40.

44 Miller, p. 344.

26. The Defenestration of Downing Street

1 Sked and Cook, p. 551.

2 Ridley, p. 251.

3 The Times, 28 November 1990.

4 Alan Watkins, A Conservative Coup: The Fall of Margaret Thatcher (Duckworth, 1992), p. 213.

5 Wyatt,Vol. 2, p. 246 (25 February 1990).

6 Walden, pp. 301 – 2.

7 Thatcher, p. 767.

8 House of Commons, 30 October 1990 [Vol. 178, cols 869 – 92].

9 Owen, Time to Declare (Michael Joseph, 1991), p. 777.

10 House of Commons, 30 October 1990 [Vol. 178, cols 869 – 92].

11 The Times, 31 October 1990.

12 Owen, p. 777.

13 Sun, 31 October 1990.

14 Ranelagh, p. 285; Parkinson, pp. 118 – 19.

15 Howe, p. 647.

16 Howe to Mrs Thatcher, The Times, 2 November 1990.

17 Mrs Thatcher to Howe, The Times, 2 November 1990.

18 The Times, 2 November 1990.

19 Ibid., 3 November 1990.