Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality (102 page)

10 WINNING THE LEADERSHIP

  
1
  Hansard, HC Deb 14 November 1974.

  
2
  Ibid.

  
3
  Ibid.

  
4
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 266.

  
5
  Ibid.

  
6
  Ibid.

  
7
  Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher, cited in Moore:
Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1,
p. 275.

  
8
  AC: Peter Morrison, 28 October 1974.

  
9
  Ibid., Peter Morrison, 29 October 1974.

10
  Moore,
Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1
, p. 283.

11
  AC: Interview with Sir John Nott.

12
  Ibid.

13
  Ibid.: Peter Rees, January 1975.

14
  CAC: Hailsham Papers, Diary, 12 November 1974.

15
  AC: Interview with Sir Edward du Cann.

16
  Ibid.

17
  Ibid.

18
  Ibid.: Commander John Kerans RN to author, 1975.

19
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Tebbit.

20
  Ibid.: Interview with Sir Edward du Cann.

21
  Ibid.

22
  
The Times
, 28 November 1974.

23
  
Daily Telegraph
, 12 October 2005.

24
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 269.

25
  AC: Author’s conversations, 1975.

26
  Ibid.: Author’s recollection, anecdote frequently retold in 1974.

27
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 272.

28
  AC: Conversation with Edward Heath, 17 December 1974.

29
  Hansard, HC Deb 21 January 1975.

30
  Ibid., 22 January 1975.

31
  Ibid.

32
  Ibid.

33
  
The Times
, 28 January 1975.

34
  Ziegler,
Edward Heath
, p. 485.

35
  AC: Interview with Lord Tebbit.

36
  Ibid.: Author’s recollection, January 1975.

37
  Ibid.: Conversations with Sir John Rodgers, 1975.

38
  AC: Interview with Lord Lamont.

39
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 277.

40
  AC: Author’s recollection, House of Commons, 5 February 1975.

11 LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION: A FRAGILE BEGINNING

  
1
  AC: Author’s recollection, 9 February 1975.

  
2
  
Sun
, 12 February 1975.

  
3
  AC: Author’s recollection, 11 February 1975.

  
4
  Ibid.

  
5
  Hansard, HC Deb, Standing Committee A (Finance Bill), 11 February 1975.

  
6
  Carol Thatcher,
Below the Parapet
, p. 11.

  
7
  Money,
Margaret Thatcher
, p. 95.

  
8
  
Private Eye
, 4 April 1979.

  
9
  AC: Author’s meeting with Margaret Thatcher, 10 March 1975.

10
  Ibid.: Conversation with Nicholas Budgen, 1976.

11
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 295.

12
  
Sunday Times
, 25 May 1975.

13
  AC: Author’s recollection, 1975.

14
  
The Times
, 7 March 1975.

15
  AC: Off-the-record interview.

16
  Ibid.: Lady Tilney to Lady Aitken, the author’s mother, 1975.

17
  
The Times
, 21 September 1978.

18
  AC: Interview with Lord Donoughue.

19
  Ibid.: Author’s recollection, 1976.

20
  Ibid.: Interview with Sir Mark Thatcher for Aitken,
Heroes and Contemporaries
, p. 135.

21
  Ibid.: Author’s recollection, 4 April 1977.

22
  Ibid.: Author’s recollection of conversation with Councillor Harry Anish, 1 January 1979.

23
  Barbara Castle,
The Castle Diaries, 1974–1976
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980, 5 August 1975, p. 487.

24
  AC: Interview with Sir John Nott.

25
  Matthew Parris,
Chance Witness:
An Outsider’s Life in Politics
, Viking, 2002, p. 189.

12 THREE FRUSTRATING YEARS

  
1
  MTF: Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Blackpool, 10 October 1975.

  
2
  Ibid.

  
3
  
Daily Mail
, 11 October 1975.

  
4
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 307.

  
5
  AC: Interview with Sir Stephen Sherbourne, October 1975.

  
6
  Ronald Millar,
A View from the Wings, West End, West Coast, Westminster
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993, p. 236.

  
7
  Ibid., p. 240.

  
8
  Ibid.

  
9
  AC: Interview with Dr Henry Kissinger.

10
  Ibid.

11
  President Gerald Ford and Dr Henry Kissinger, Memorandum of Conversation, 9 May 1974, cited in Moore,
Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1
, p. 313.

12
  Hansard, HC Deb 8 June 1976.

13
  Ibid., 29 June 1976.

14
  Frank Giles,
Sunday Times
, John Murray, 1986, p. 226.

15
  AC: Remarks made by David Crouch, 23 March 1977.

16
  Ibid.

17
  AC: Interview with Sir Edward du Cann.

18
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 319.

19
  Deborah Devonshire,
Wait for Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister
, John Murray, 2010, p. 258.

20
  MTF: Interview for
World in Action
, Granada TV, 30 January 1978.

21
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 408.

22
  MTF: Speech at Kensington Town Hall, 19 January 1976.

23
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 362.

24
  Ibid.

25
  Phillip Whitehead,
The Writing on the Wall: Britain in the Seventies
, Channel 4/Michael Joseph, 1985, p. 336.

26
  Prior,
A Balance of Power
, p. 108.

27
  
Evening Standard
, 27 June 1985.

28
  AC: Interview with Sir John Hoskyns.

29
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 317.

30
  Ranelagh,
Thatcher’s People
, p. 28.

31
  AC: Meeting with Airey Neave, May 1975.

32
  Ibid.: Interview with Professor John Casey, 1975.

33
  Ibid.

34
  Ranelagh,
Thatcher’s People
, p. ix.

35
  Campbell,
The Grocer’s Daughter
, p. 372.

13 LAST LAP TO THE ELECTION

  
1
  Hansard, HC Deb 25 July 1978.

  
2
  Ibid.

  
3
  
Financial Times
, 26 July 1978.

  
4
  AC: Interview with Lord St John of Fawsley.

  
5
  Hansard, HC Deb 25 July 1978.

  
6
  Ibid.

  
7
  AC: Conversation with Nicholas Fairbairn, 1978.

  
8
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Bell.

  
9
  Ibid.

10
  Ibid.

11
  MTF: Interview for Central TV, 7 September 1978.

12
  AC: Interview with Lord Donoughue.

13
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Bell.

14
  Ibid.

15
  Ibid.

16
  Ibid.

17
  Ibid.

18
  
The Times
, 26 October 1978.

19
  
Daily Express
, 10 November 1978.

20
  Norman Tebbit,
Upwardly Mobile
, Futura, 1989, p. 199.

21
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 419.

22
  
Sun
, 11 January 1979.

23
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, pp. 247–248.

24
  MTF: Conservative Party Political Broadcast by Margaret Thatcher, 17 January 1979.

25
  Ibid.

26
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, p. 249.

27
  AC: Conversation with Margaret Thatcher, 18 January 1979.

28
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Bell.

29
  
Daily Express
, 6 February 1979.

30
  Hansard, HC Deb 7 May 1940.

31
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 431.

32
  Thomas Babington Macaulay, ‘
Horatius’
,
Lays of Ancient Rome
, Longman, 1849.

33
  Hansard, HC Deb 28 March 1979.

34
  Ibid.

35
  Ibid.

36
  AC: Author’s recollection, 28 March 1979.

37
  Hansard, HC Deb 28 March 1979.

38
  AC: Author’s recollection, 28 March 1979.

39
  Ibid.: Carol Thatcher to the author, 1 April 1979.

40
  AC: Interview with Lord Bell.

14 THE FINAL ASCENT TO NO. 10

  
1
  Ipsos MORI, 3–5 March 1979.

  
2
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 434.

  
3
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, p. 251.

  
4
  
Daily Express
, 31 March 1979.

  
5
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, p. 253.

  
6
  Ibid., p. 255.

  
7
  Ibid.

  
8
  AC: Interview with Sir Kenneth Stowe.

  
9
  Ibid.

10
  Ibid.

11
  
Observer
, 15 April 1979.

12
  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 451.

13
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, p. 262.

14
  Ibid.

15
  UK Polling Report, 1974–1979.

16
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, p. 262.

17
  
Guardian
, 5 May 1979.

18
  
Daily Mail
, 19 April 1979.

19
  AC: Conversation with Gordon Reece, circa 1983.

20
  Denis Tuohy, ‘Iron and Velvet’,
The Tablet
, 11 February 2012.

21
  
Daily Mail
, 30 April 1979.

22
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, p. 261.

23
  MTF: Conservative Party Election Broadcast, 30 April 1979.

24
  AC: Author’s recollection, 30 April 1979.

25
  Ibid.: April 1979.

26
  Ibid.: April 1977.

27
  
Observer
, 25 February 1979.

28
  AC: Author’s unpublished diary, 28–29 April 1979.

29
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord St John of Fawsley.

30
  Jonathan Aitken,
Nixon: A Life
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993, p. 546.

31
  The Prayer of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (1818).

32
  AC: Denis Thatcher to author, Spring 1979.

33
  Noel Annan,
Our Age: The Generation that Made Post-War Britain
, Fortuna, 1991, p. 585.

34
  AC: Interview with Lord Donoughue.

35
  Ibid.

36
  
Daily Mirror
, 4 May 1979.

37
  
Sun
, 3 May 1979.

38
  
Daily Express
, 4 May 1979.

39
  MTF: BBC Radio News Report at 07.00, 4 May 1979.

40
  This prayer, attributed to St Francis of Assisi, was written by an unknown nineteenth-century author.

41
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, p. 266.

42
  David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh,
The British General Election of 1979
, Macmillan, 1980, pp. 199 and 395.

43
  AC: Interview with Lord Bell.

44
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, p. 267.

45
  Ibid., p. 268.

46
  Ibid., p. 269.

47
  AC: Interview with Sir Teddy Taylor.

48
  Iain Dale (ed.),
Margaret Thatcher: In Her Own Words
, Biteback, 2010, p. 110.

49
  AC: Interview with Lord Bell.

50
  MTF: Speech at Cardiff, 16 April 1979.

51
  Butler and Kavanagh,
The British General Election of 1979
, p. 343.

15 FIRST MOVES AS PRIME MINISTER

  
1
  AC: Interview with Sir Kenneth Stowe.

  
2
  Edward Heath,
The Course of My Life
, Hodder & Stoughton 1998, p. 574.

  
3
  AC: Interview with Sir Kenneth Stowe.

  
4
  
Guardian
, 7 May 1979.

  
5
  Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol, 3 November 1774.

  
6
  Hansard, HC Deb 15 May 1979.

  
7
  AC: Author’s recollection, 15 May 1979.

  
8
  Ibid.: 15 May 1979.

  
9
  Tony Benn,
The Benn Diaries, 1940–1990
, Arrow Books, 1996, 15 May 1979, p. 476.

10
  Margaret Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, Harper Press, 2011, p. 42.

11
  Ibid., p. 43.

12
  
The Times
, 16 November 1979.

13
  AC: Enoch Powell to the author, December 1979.

14
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Howell.

15
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Lamont.

16
  Patrick Cosgrave,
Thatcher: The First Term
, Bodley Head, 1985, p. 105.

17
  AC: Interview with Lord Baker.

18
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Howell.

19
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord St John of Fawsley.

20
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Jenkin.

21
  Ibid.

22
  Ibid.: Peter Morrison to the author, November 1979.

23
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 48.

24
  AC: Interview with Lord Carrington.

25
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 48.

26
  Prior,
A Balance of Power
, p. 136.

27
  AC: Interview with Lord Armstrong.

28
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Parkinson.

29
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Armstrong.