Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality (107 page)

36 END GAME

  
1
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 838.

  
2
  Hansard, HC Deb 14 June 1978.

  
3
  Ibid., 13 November 1990.

  
4
  Ibid.

  
5
  Clark,
Diaries
, 13 November 1990, p. 347.

  
6
  William Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar
, Act III, Scene I.

  
7
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 839.

  
8
  Hansard, HC Deb 13 November 1990.

  
9
  AC: Interview with Gerald Howarth.

10
  Ibid.: Michael Heseltine to the author, November 1990.

11
  Wyatt,
Journals
, vol. 2, 20 November 1990, p. 394.

12
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 836.

13
  AC: Remarks by Nicholas Budgen, 13 November 1990.

14
  Clark,
Diaries
, 19 November 1990, pp. 354–355.

15
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 841.

16
  
The Times
, 19 November 1990.

17
  AC: Remarks by Peter Morrison, 21 November 1990.

18
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Powell.

19
  Ibid.: Conversation with Peter Morrison, 22 November 1990.

20
  Ibid.: Interview with Lord Powell.

21
  Ibid.: Conversation with John Sergeant in Broadcasting House, 8 April. 2013; MTF: Margaret Thatcher remarks outside British Embassy Paris, 20 November 1990.

22
  Carol Thatcher,
Below the Parapet
, pp. 263–264.

23
  AC: 30 November 1990.

24
  
The Spectator
, 6 November 1993.

25
  AC: Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev and his interpreter, Pavel Palazchenko.

26
  Cynthia Crawford interview,
Maggie: The First Lady
, Brook Lapping, 2003.

27
  The author on
Newsnight
, BBC2, 13 November 1990.

37 EXIT

  
1
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years,
p. 846.

  
2
  Ibid., p. 847

  
3
  Ibid., p. 849.

  
4
  AC: Remarks to Margaret Thatcher on 21 November 1990.

  
5
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years,
p. 850.

  
6
  AC: Remarks to Margaret Thatcher on 21 November 1990.

  
7
  Alan Clark,
Diaries,
21 November 1990, p. 366.

  
8
  AC: Remarks to Margaret Thatcher on 21 November 1990.

  
9
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years,
p. 850.

10
  Major,
The Autobiography,
p. 187.

11
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years,
p. 852.

12
  Ibid., p. 851.

13
  Ibid., p. 855.

14
  Margaret Thatcher for
Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
, Part 1, BBC, 1993.

15
  Alan Clark,
Diaries,
21 November 1990, p. 366.

16
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years,
p. 853.

17
  Alan Sked and Chris Cook,
Post-War Britain: A Political History, 1945–1992
, (4th edn) Penguin, 1993, p. 550.

18
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years,
p. 855.

19
  Carol Thatcher,
Below the Parapet,
p. 266.

20
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years,
p. 856.

21
  Ibid.

22
  Baker,
The Turbulent Years
, pp. 409–410.

23
  MTF: Speaking to her cabinet, 22 November 1990.

24
  Parkinson,
Right at the Centre
, p. 4.

25
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 858.

26
  Hansard, HC Deb 22 November 1990.

27
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 859.

28
  John Morley, The
Life of William Ewart Gladstone
, 3 vols, Macmillan, 1903, p. 357.

29
  Hansard, HC Deb 22 November 1990.

30
  Ibid.

31
  Ibid.

32
  Ibid.

33
  Ibid.

34
  Ibid.

35
  Ibid.

36
  
Daily Mail
, 23 November 1990.

37
  Wyatt,
Journals
, Vol. 2, 23 November 1990, pp. 401–402.

38
  Baker,
The Turbulent Years
, p. 395.

39
  
The Times
, 28 November 1990.

40
  Carol Thatcher,
Below the Parapet
, p. 272.

41
  Ibid.
,
p. 271.

42
  MTF: Speech to Conservative Central Office, 26 November 1990.

43
  Millar,
A View from the Wings
, p. 362.

44
  Hansard, HC Deb 27 November 1990.

45
  Major,
The Autobiography
, p. 199.

46
  Penny Junor,
John Major: From Brixton to Downing Street
, Penguin, 1996
,
p. 205.

47
  Major,
The Autobiography
, p. 199.

48
  MTF: Remarks departing Downing Street, 28 November 1990.

49
  Enoch Powell,
Third Way
, October 2006.

38 THE AGONY AFTER THE FALL

  
1
  Interview with Denis Oliver, BBC Radio 4, 11 April 2013.

  
2
  Brenda Maddox,
Maggie
:
The First Lady
, Hodder & Stoughton, 2003, p. 219.

  
3
  AC: Interview with Lord Butler.

  
4
  AC: Peter Morrison to the author, January 1991.

  
5
  Ibid.: Conversation with Margaret Thatcher, January 1991.

  
6
  Margaret Orth, ‘Maggie’s Big Problem’,
Vanity Fair
, June 1991.

  
7
  BBC Radio 4, 10 April 1913.

  
8
  Aitken,
Heroes and Contemporaries
, p. 147.

  
9
  AC: Private information.

10
  AC: Interview with Julian Seymour.

11
  AC: Interview with Lord Butler.

12
  Ibid.

13
  Ibid.

14
  Moore,
Margaret Thatcher
,
Vol. 1.
, p. xii.

15
  AC: Author’s party for Sir Teddy Taylor, 26 November 1991.

16
  Hansard, HC Deb 26 June 1991.

17
  AC: Interview with Sir Richard Shepherd.

18
  Margaret Thatcher interview, ITN, 22 November 1991.

19
  AC: Interview with Sir John Major.

20
  AC: Conversation with Margaret Thatcher, December 1991.

21
  
The Times
, 26 November 1992.

22
  AC: Interview with Sir John Major.

23
  AC: Interview with Alan Duncan MP.

39 SNAPSHOTS OF HER RETIREMENT YEARS

  
1
  Hansard, House of Lords, 14 July 1993, vol. 548, cols. 281–6.

  
2
  Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 13, verse 32.

  
3
  Speech in Fulton, Missouri, 9 March 1996.

  
4
  AC: Conversation with Margaret Thatcher, June 1992.

  
5
  Ibid.

  
6
  Ibid.

  
7
  AC: Lunch at Sandwich Bay, June 1996.

  
8
  Ibid: Interview with Sir Richard Shepherd.

  
9
  Ibid: Interview with Bill Cash.

10
  Aitken,
Heroes and Contemporaries
, pp. 149–151.

11
  AC: Denis Thatcher, Rannoch, 16 August 1996.

12
  Ibid: Malcolm Pearson, Rannoch, 17 August 1996.

13
  Ibid: Denis Thatcher, Rannoch, 16 August 1996.

14
  Ibid. Margaret Thatcher, Rannoch, 18 August 1996. See also
Sunday Telegraph
, 14 April 2013.

15
  AC: Denis Thatcher, Rannoch, 16 August 1996.

16
  Ibid: Jonathan Aitken (unpublished) diary, 20 August 1996.

17
  MTF: Lady Thatcher, remarks on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, 26 September 1995.

18
  AC: Conversation with Michael Alison.

19
  Ibid.

20
  Ibid: Interview with The Rev Dick Whittington.

21
  Ibid.

22
  Ibid.

EPIOLGUE

  
1
  Carol Thatcher,
A Swim-on Part in the Goldfish Bowl
, Headline Review, 2008, p. 25.

  
2
  Ibid., p. 260.

  
3
  AC: Conversation with Carol Thatcher, June 2000.

  
4
  
The Times
, 11 April 2013.