Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality (110 page)

      origination of
202

Jakobovits, Immanuel (Chief Rabbi)
475
,
679

Jenkin, Patrick (Baron Jenkin of Roding)
77
,
250
,
254–5
,
318
,
350
,
381
,
403–4

     Environment Secretary
400
,
503

Jewish people

     as cabinet ministers
103

     in Finchley
80
,
83
,
102–3
,
187

     MT’s affection and affinity for
27–8
,
83
,
102–3

     Mühlbauer, Edith
27–8

     persecution by Hitler
27–8

     Soviet, wishing to emigrate to Israel
482

Johnson, Paul
205
,
234
,
270

Jopling, Michael (
later
Baron Jopling), Chief Whip
328
,
331
,
335
,
385
,
391
,
491
,
625

Joseph, Sir Keith (
later
Baron Joseph)
52
,
83
,
121
,
149
,
151–4
,
157
,
162
,
168
,
184
,
207
,
253
,
378

     and Brighton bomb
411–12

     Edgbaston (eugenics) speech (October 1974)
153
,
155–6

     Industry Secretary
250
,
377–8

     Jewish background
103
,
151

      MT, views on/relationship with
95
,
109–10
,
144–5
,
152–3
,
502–3
,
687

Kaufman, Gerald
131
,
135–6
,
396

Keays, Sara
390–1
,
405

Kent miners
382
,
443–4

Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School (KGGS)
31–8

     Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, MT becoming
39
,
665
,
668

     headmistresses, arguments with
34–6

     ‘Operation Double Shift’ during war years
33
,
39

     relationship of MT with contemporaries
31–2
,
39

     return visit of MT as Prime Minister in 1982
37

     scholarship to
18–19

     war years
28–9

Kimball, Marcus Richard (
later
Baron Kimball of Easton)
149
,
159
,
335

King, Tom (
later
Baron King of Bridgewater)
398–9
,
418–19
,
615
,
638

     and Kuwait invasion (1990)
599–600

Kinnock, Neil (Baron Kinnock)
387
,
455–7
,
516
,
524
,
531
,
550
,
603
,
605
,
609
,
614
,
632

Kirkpatrick, Jeane
336
,
355
,
365–6

Kissinger, Henry
137
,
197–8
,
337

Kitson, (Sir) Timothy
145
,
170
,
173
,
179

Kohl, Helmut
197
,
298–9
,
384
,
591–4
,
606
,
631
,
671

Kuwait invasion (1990), MT’s contribution to Western reaction
598–601

Kuwaiti export order car crisis
672–5

Labour Party
84
,
131
,
215

     economic performance in 1940s
59–60

     Falklands War, problems following
382–6

     Lib-Lab pact (1977)
199
,
209
,
223

     no confidence debate (March 1979)
224–7
,
228–9

     and ‘winter of discontent’
see
‘winter of discontent’ (1978–79)

     
see also
specific
politicians

Lamb, (Sir) Larry
220–1
,
247

Lamont, Norman (
later
Baron Lamont of Lerwick)
4
,
161
,
173
,
253
,
553
,
637
,
645
,
648
,
686

Lawson, Nigel (
later
Baron Lawson of Blaby)
103
,
161
,
250
,
318
,
381
,
400–4
,
442
,
472
,
506
,
521
,
530
,
538–54
,
584

     Deutschmark, shadowing
542–6

     Exchange Rate Mechanism, clashes with MT over
540–2
,
553
,
588

     Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS)
301–2
,
401
,
539

     personality clashes with MT
271
,
538–40
,
547–9

     resignation (October 1989)
395
,
586–8

     Alan Walters, resentment of
549
,
584–5

leaking, practice of
269
,
307
,
393–4
,
443

     and Westland crisis
509–11
,
513–16

Lennox-Boyd, Sir Mark
517–18
,
585

Lever, Harold (Baron Lever of Manchester)
157
,
232

Lewin, Sir Terence
326
,
345
,
347–9
,
359
,
362

Liberal Party/Liberal Democrats
60
,
79
,
83–4
,
140
,
226

     Lib-Lab pact (1977)
199
,
209
,
223

Libya bombing (1986)
470–3

Lincolnshire, as ‘Bomber County’
29–30

     
see also
Grantham, Lincolnshire

Lloyd, Selwyn (
later
Baron Selwyn-Lloyd)
96–8
,
101
,
111
,
240–1
,
333

local education authorities (LEAs), education policy
121–2
,
127
,
129

London
16
,
410

     abolition of GLC and Inner London Education Authority
399
,
531

     ‘Big Bang,’ City of London
404

      
see also
Downing Street (No. 10); Finchley, London

Maastricht Treaty (1992)
662
,
664–5

MacGregor, John (Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market)
530
,
613
,
633
,
637
,
640

MacGregor, Sir Ian
444–6
,
448
,
453–4

Macleod, Iain
83
,
112–15
,
128
,
156

Macmillan, Harold (
later
1st Earl of Stockton)
84–5
,
151
,
200
,
240
,
303
,
344
,
439
,
528

     and early policies of MT
89
,
97
,
103
,
108

     and leadership contest of 1975
162–3

Macmillan, Maurice (
later
Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden)
127–8
,
159–60

Madrid, European Council Summit Meeting (1989)
551
,
573–6

Major, (Sir) John
425
,
437
,
530
,
535
,
553
,
611
,
625
,
628
,
632
,
662

     attacks by MT following her retirement
663–8

     and Exchange Rate Mechanism
604–5
,
607

     as successor to MT
583
,
645–9

male chauvinism/sex discrimination
36
,
52
,
87

     in Conservative Party
70
,
77–8
,
81
,
86
,
88
,
124

manifestos, Conservative Party
84
,
90
,
110
,
126
,
128
,
144
,
233
,
387
,
404

man-management shortcomings of MT

     argumentativeness
126–7
,
129–30
,
236
,
264
,
278
,
501

     bullying and aggressive tendencies
3
,
6
,
25–6
,
130
,
144
,
241
,
253–4
,
284
,
356
,
502
,
561
,
609

     confrontational nature
26
,
181
,
212
,
238
,
501

     not detracting from strength as a great leader
616

     as possible contributions to downfall
7
,
516–19
,
538
,
554
,
587
,
591
,
596
,
650

     reluctance to apologise
218
,
232
,
241
,
502

     rudeness and offensiveness traits
26
,
37
,
93
,
254
,
257
,
260
,
278–9
,
285
,
291–2
,
298
,
317
,
502
,
533
,
538
,
609
,
618

     
see also
under
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda (Baroness)

Margadale, John Morrison, 1st Baron
158–9
,
280

Maudling, Reginald (Reggie)
105
,
109–10
,
121
,
137

     as Shadow Foreign Secretary
179
,
202–3

Mayhew, Patrick (
later
Baron Mayhew of Twysden)
304
,
509–10

media, MT’s relations with
90–4
,
185
,
268
,
375
,
387
,
394

Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS)
301–2
,
401
,
539

memoirs of MT
16
,
24–5
,
50
,
84
,
352
,
426
,
655

     
The Downing Street Years
653
,
659

     
The Path to Power
659

     
A Provincial Childhood
25

Methodism

     Finkin Street Church, Grantham
22–3
,
33

     and MT’s upbringing
15
,
21–2
,
679

     of Alfred Roberts
21–4
,
28
,
680

     Wesleyan
22

Meyer, Sir Anthony
589–91
,
615
,
625

MI5
272–3
,
518

Millar, (Sir) Ronald
196–7
,
208
,
217
,
221
,
242
,
315
,
515
,
647

     and Brighton bomb
411
,
413

     and election campaign of 1979
230–1
,
236
,
244–5

     as ‘laughing boy’
211
,
213–14
,
216
,
222

     and miners’ dispute
450–1

miners’ strike (1984–85)
382
,
439
,
443–5
,
447
,
483

     collapse
5
,
454–5

     
see also
Scargill, Arthur; trade unions

Ministry of Defence (MoD)
427–8

     Heseltine’s statement to regarding Westland crisis
512–13

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (MPNI),
later
Ministry of Social Security and
then
Department of Heatlh and Social Security
99–100
,
155

Mirage aircraft, supply by Dassault to Saudi Arabia
427–9

Mitterrand, François
298
,
469
,
591–3
,
606
,
630–1

monetarism
116–18
,
146
,
152
,
161
,
301
,
378

     and Milton Friedman
208
,
250

monopolies and mergers
275–6
,
403

Montgomery, (Sir) Fergus
139–40
,
190

Moore, Charles (biographer)
12
,
29
,
76
,
81
,
326
,
659
,
671

Moore, John (
later
Baron Moore of Lower Marsh)
45
,
161
,
185–6
,
404
,
503
,
530
,
535
,
633

Morley, Betty (
later
Langan)
12–13
,
15
,
31
,
33

Morrison, (Sir) Peter
160–1
,
166
,
185
,
256
,
279–80
,
625–8
,
633
,
636
,
654
,
660

     and leadership contest of 1975
158–9