11 AC: Interview with Mrs. Pamela Powell, reading from diary entry, 5 May 1982.
12 Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 196.
13 AC: Interview with Sir Mark Thatcher.
14 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 217.
15 MTF: Margaret Thatcher to President Reagan, 5 May 1982, in Margaret Thatcher’s personal papers, released 21 March 2013.
16 Ibid.
17 Freedman, The Official History of the Falkland Islands, Vol. II, War and Diplomacy, p. 328.
18 AC: Interview with Lord Thomas.
19 Ibid.
20 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 217.
21 Hansard, HC Deb 6 May 1982.
22 Ibid., 7 May 1982.
23 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 221.
24 Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 13 May 1982, p. 84.
25 Henderson, Mandarin, p. 463.
26 Nott, Here Today and Gone Tomorrow, pp. 293–294.
27 Hastings and Jenkins, The Battle for the Falklands, p. 216.
28 CAC: DOHP/57, Sir Antony Acland, pp. 33–34.
29 AC: Interview, off-the-record.
30 Hansard, HC Deb 13 May 1982.
31 AC: Ian Gow to the author and others, 13 May 1982.
32 Ibid.: Ian Gow to the author, May 1982.
33 MTF: Speech to the Scottish Conservative Party Conference, Perth, 14 May 1982.
34 Hansard, HC Deb 20 May 1982.
21 THE FALKLANDS WAR III: VICTORY
1 AC: Interview with Lord Armstrong.
2 Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 197.
3 Thomson, The Woman Within, pp. 174–178.
4 The Times, 22 May 1982.
5 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 226.
6 Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 198.
7 Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher, cited in Moore, Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1, p. 735.
8 AC: Interview with Sir Mark Thatcher quoting from the poem ‘Heritage’ by Rudyard Kipling.
9 Hastings and Jenkins, The Battle for the Falklands, p. 320; off-the-record interview with a member of the War Cabinet.
10 AC: Interview with Sir John Nott.
11 Interview with Lord Armstrong, cited in Moore, Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1, p. 742.
12 Geoffrey Smith, Reagan and Thatcher, Bodley Head, 1990, p. 26.
13 Telephone call Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, 31 May 1982, excerpts published in the Sunday Times, 8 March 1992.
14 MTF: Rentschler’s Falklands diary, 3 June 1982.
15 AC: Interview with Lord Armstrong.
16 Henderson, Mandarin, p. 466.
17 Ibid., p. 470.
18 MTF: Margaret Thatcher draft telegram to General Galtieri, 2 June 1982.
19 Hastings and Jenkins, The Battle for the Falklands, p. 328.
20 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 232.
21 Ibid., p. 234.
22 Nott, Here Today and Gone Tomorrow, p. 314.
23 Hansard, HC Deb 14 June 1982.
24 Ibid.
25 AC: Author’s personal recollection, 14 June 1982.
26 CAC: DOHP/57, Sir Antony Acland, p. 33.
27 Elizabeth Longford, Wellington: Pillar of State, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972, p. 7.
28 AC: Interview with Sir John Nott.
29 Ibid.: Interview with Lord Parkinson.
22 AFTER THE FALKLANDS
1 Daily Express, 26 July 1982.
2 Hansard, HC Deb 17 June 1982.
3 Marines land at Plymouth, BBC TV, 13 July 1982.
4 MTF: Speech to Conservative Rally, Cheltenham, 2 July 1982.
5 The Times, 25 August 1982.
6 Daily Telegraph, 15 November 1982.
7 Rex Hunt, My Falkland Days, David & Charles, 1992, p. 377.
8 Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 201.
9 MTF: The Woman at Number Ten, interviewed by Sir Laurens van der Post, ITV, 29 March 1983.
10 AC: William Whitelaw to author and other Tory backbenchers, House of Commons, 10 July 1982.
11 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 112.
12 AC: Interview with Lord Young.
13 Nigel Lawson, The View from No. 11, p. 303.
14 Young, One of Us, p. 301.
15 The Economist, 18 September 1982.
16 Young, One of Us, p. 301.
17 AC: Interview with Sir Michael Scholar.
18 Young, One of Us, p. 301.
19 AC: Interview with Sir Kenneth Stowe.
20 Ibid.
21 MTF: Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Brighton, 8 October 1982.
22 Peter Riddell, The Thatcher Era and Its Legacy, Blackwell, 1991, p. 88.
23 AC: Interview with Lord Jenkin.
24 Ibid.
25 Lawson, The View from No. 11, p. 217.
26 MTF: Speech, Brighton, 8 October 1982.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 247.
30 Hansard, HC Deb 21 January 1982.
31 MTF: Press Conference with Chancellor Kohl, London, 4 February 1983.
32 Robert Blake, Disraeli, Faber and Faber, 2010, p. 279.
33 The Times, 23 April 1983.
34 Spicer, The Spicer Diaries, 7 April 1983, p. 62.
35 Parkinson, Right at the Centre, p. 224.
36 Ferdinand Mount, Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes, Bloomsbury, 2008, p. 335.
37 Michael Cockerell, Live From Number 10: Prime Ministers and Television, Faber & Faber, 1988, p. 283.
38 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 301.
39 Guardian, 7 June 1983.
40 Ibid., 3 June 1983.
41 Ibid., 8 June 1983.
42 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 284.
43 Ibid., p. 287.
44 MTF: Speech at the Metropole Hotel, Birmingham, 3 June 1983.
45 Ibid.: Speech at City Hall, Cardiff, 23 May 1983.
46 Ibid.
47 Daily Mirror, 7 June 1983.
48 The Times, 5 May 1980.
23 STUMBLING INTO THE SECOND TERM
1 AC: Interview with Lord Parkinson.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 310.
5 AC: Interview with Lord Parkinson.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Matthew Laban, Mr Speaker: The Office and the Individuals, Biteback, 2013, p. 45.
9 AC: Bernard Weatherill to the author, 18 June 1983.
10 Laban, Mr Speaker, p. 150.
11 Ibid.
12 Sunday Telegraph, 22 May 1988.
13 MTF: Interview for Weekend World, LWT, 8 May 1988.
14 Laban, Mr Speaker, p. 159.
15 AC: Interview with Lord Carrington.
16 The Times, 14 July 1983.
17 Prior, A Balance of Power, p. 229.
18 The Times, 21 July 1983.
19 AC: Dinner with Margaret Thatcher, July 1983.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 The Times, 16 October 1981.
23 AC: Interview with Lord Young.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 646.
27 Ibid., p. 309.
28 MTF: Interview for Glyn Mathias, ITN, 28 July 1983.
29 Hansard, HC Deb 31 January 1984.
30 Nigel Lawson, The View from No. 11, p. 357.
31 AC: Interview with Lord Jenkin.
32 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 676.
33 MTF: Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Blackpool, 13 October 1989.
34 William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1687), Act III, Scene viii.
35 AC: Interview with Lord Butler.
36 Sir Anthony Parsons interviewed for Thatcher: The Downing Street Years, BBC, 1993.
37 AC: interview with Lord Butler.
24 TERRORISM, IRELAND AND HONG KONG
1 Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 434.
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2 Daily Express, 28 August 1979.
3 Ibid., 30 August 1979.
4 AC: Conversation with Harry West, September 1979.
5 Guardian, 24 July 2002.
6 AC: Interview with former SAS officers.
7 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 90.
8 AC: Interview, with former SAS officers.
9 MTF: Press conference Dublin, 8 December 1980.
10 BBC, 28 May 1981, cited in Campbell, The Iron Lady, p. 425.
11 Peter Taylor, Provos, The IRA and Sinn Fein, Bloomsbury, 1998, p. 237.
12 BBC News, On This Day, 20 July 1982.
13 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 397.
14 Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 219.
15 AC: Interview with Lord Butler.
16 Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 220.
17 Millar, A View from the Wings, p. 301.
18 AC: Conversation with Michael Alison, 1997.
19 Ibid.
20 Iain Dale (ed.), Memories of Maggie, Politico’s, 2000, p. 107.
21 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 380.
22 Ibid., p. 381.
23 AC: Interview with Lord Butler.
24 Ibid.
25 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 382.
26 AC: Conversation with Denis Thatcher, March 2000.
27 Daily Express, 15 October 1984.
28 Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 219.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 MTF: 25th anniversary as MP, speech at Finchley, 20 October 1984.
32 The Times, 10 December 1980.
33 AC: Interview with Sir Kenneth Stowe.
34 AC: Conversation with Ian Gow, December 1980.
35 Ibid.: Interview with Sir Kenneth Stowe.
36 CAC: DOHP/47, Sir Robert Wade-Gery, p. 84.
37 Ibid., p. 85.
38 AC: Interview with Lord Armstrong.
39 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 399.
40 MTF: Press conference, 19 November 1984.
41 Guardian, 26 November 1984.
42 The Times 16 November 1985.
43 AC: Interview with Lord King.
44 Ibid.
45 The Times, 25 November 1985.
46 Hansard, HC Deb 18 November 1985.
47 Ibid., 14 November 1985.
48 AC: Conversation with Margaret Thatcher at Ian Gow’s funeral at Eastbourne, 8 August 1990.
49 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 415.
50 Howe, Conflict of Interest, p. 361.
51 Ibid., p. 363.
52 Sir Percy Cradock, Experiences in China, John Murray, 1994, p. 125.
53 Ibid., pp. 175–176.
54 Ibid., p. 179.
55 Ibid., p. 186.
56 AC: Interview with Lord Wilson.
57 Ibid.
58 AC: Interview with Lord Powell.
59 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 492.
25 BATTING FOR BRITAIN IN SAUDI ARABIA
1 AC: Interview with Sir Richard Evans, confirmed by author’s earlier conversations in Saudi Arabia with Princes Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, Fahd bin Salman, Mohamed bin Fahd and others.
2 Ibid.: Interview with Wafic Saïd.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.: Interview with Sir Richard Evans and conversations with Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
6 Ibid.: Interview with Sir Richard Evans.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.: Interview with Wafic Saïd.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.: see note 1.
11 Ibid.: Interview with Sir Richard Evans.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Tornado Project – Commercial Negotiations, Confidential telegram, Sir Patrick Wright (Riyadh) to Ministry of Defense 6 January 1986, copied to Private Secretary, Prime Minister.
15 AC: Interview with Sir Richard Evans.
26 UNIONS AND MINERS
1 AC: Interview with Lord Carrington.
2 Ibid.: Interview with Sir John Hoskyns.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 MTF: Interview for Brian Walden, Weekend World, LWT, 6 January 1980.
6 Hansard, HC Deb 22 January 1980.
7 AC: Interview with Lord Howell.
8 The Times, 5 July 1983.
9 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 341.
10 AC: Author’s recollection, January 1984.
11 Ibid., February 1984.
12 Daily Mirror, 30 March 1983.
13 AC: Sir Ian MacGregor speaking to the Conservative Philosophy Group, May 1984.
14 The Miner, March 1983, quoted in Michael Crick, Scargill and the Miners, Penguin, 1985, p. 96.
15 AC: Interview with Lord Turnbull.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 The Times, 30 May 1984.
19 MTF: Speech to farmers at Banbury Cattle Market, 30 May 1984.
20 AC: David Hart, June 1984.
21 David Hart, (unpublished) diaries, 26 October 1984.
22 AC: Interview with Sir Stephen Sherbourne.
23 Millar, A View from the Wings, p. 299.
24 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 365.
25 Daily Express, 2 October 1984.
26 Sunday Times, 28 October and 4 November 1984.
27 AC: Interview with Sir Stephen Sherbourne.
28 Mount, Cold Cream, p. 330.
29 AC: David Hart, June 1985.
30 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 365.
31 Ibid., p. 358.
32 Margaret Thatcher interviewed for Thatcher: The Downing Street Years, BBC, 1993.
33 AC: Interviews with Lord Bell.
34 MTF: Interview for TV Eye, Thames TV, 24 January 1985.
35 The Times, 26 January 1985.
36 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 375.
37 AC: Margaret Thatcher to the author, April 1985.
38 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 378.
39 Hansard, HC Deb 31 January 1985.
40 The Times, 20 July 1984.
27 STRENGTHENING THE ‘SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP’ WITH RONALD REAGAN
1 AC: interview with Lord Carrington.
2 Ibid.
3 Charles Powell, ‘Differences Were in the Detail’, The Tablet, 19 April 2012.
4 Ronald Reagan, An American Life, Arrow Books, 1991, p. 204.
5 Viewpoint, Ronald Reagan Pre-Presidential Radio Broadcast, April 1975, cited in Moore, Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1, p. 314.
6 Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 372.
7 AC: Interview with Lord Carrington.
8 MTF: Exchange of toasts at the British Embassy dinner, 27 February 1981.
9 Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 27 February 1981, p. 5.
10 MTF: Personal letter from Margaret Thatcher to Sir Nicholas Henderson, 5 March 1981.
11 Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 27 February 1981, p. 5.
12 Young and Sloman, The Thatcher Phenomenon, p. 108.
13 George Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State, Macmillan, 1993, p. 152.
14 Smith, Reagan and Thatcher, p. 224.
15 Aldous, Reagan and Thatcher, p. 148.
16 Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 24 October 1983, p. 190.
17 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 331.
18 Hansard, HC Deb 25 October 1983.
19 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 332.
20 MTF: Telephone call from Reagan to Thatcher, 26 October 1983.
21 Ibid.
22 Aldous, Reagan and Thatcher, p. 151.
23 MTF: Telephone call from Reagan to Thatcher, 26 October 1983.
24 Brian Crozier, Free Agent, HarperCollins, 1993, p. 264.
25 Campbell, The Iron Lady, p. 278.
26 The Economist, 10 March 1984.
27 Ibid., 3 March 1984.
28 Aldous, Reagan and Thatcher, p. 163.
29 The Times, 11 June 1984.
30 Reagan, An American Life, p. 354.<
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31 MTF: Fred F. Fielding Memo to President Reagan, 25 July 1984.
32 AC: Conversation with Margaret Thatcher, 15 April 1984; see also Aitken, Heroes and Contemporaries, p. 142.
33 Powell, The Tablet, 19 April 2012.
34 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 447.
35 Kenneth Baker, The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics, Faber and Faber, 1993, pp. 268–269.
36 Aldous, Reagan and Thatcher, p. 213.
37 Hansard, HC Deb 15 April 1986.
38 AC: Edward Heath to the author, 16 April 1986.
39 Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 17 April 1986, p. 406.
40 New York Times, 26 April 1986.
41 ‘Reagan Urges Senate Action on U.S.–British Terrorism Treaty’, AP News Archive, 31 May 1986.
42 Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 17 June 1986. p. 425.
28 STARTING TO WIN THE COLD WAR
1 AC: Conversation with Richard Nixon in 1982.
2 Ibid.
3 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 451.
4 MTF: Sir Julian Bullard, Chequers Soviet Seminar, 8 September 1983.
5 Ibid.
6 Howe, Conflict of Loyalty, p. 317.
7 AC: Interview with Lord Powell.
8 Ibid.
9 Sir Percy Cradock, In Pursuit of British Interests, John Murray, 1994, p. 14.
10 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 456.
11 Aldous, Reagan and Thatcher, p. 160.
12 AC: Interview with Sir Nigel Broomfield.
13 Leonid Zamyatin, interview for Kommersant Vlast, Moscow, 4 May 2005.
14 AC: Interview with Sir Nigel Broomfield.
15 Ibid.
16 AC: Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev.
17 Ibid.: Interview with Lord Powell.
18 Ibid.: Interview with Sir Bernard Ingham.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.: Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev.
21 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 460.
22 AC: Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Smith, Reagan and Thatcher, p. 149.
32 AC: Interview with Lord Powell.
33 President Reagan, ‘Evil Empire’ speech, Address to the National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, Florida, 3 March 1983.
34 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 463.
35 AC: Interview with Sir Bernard Ingham.
36 MTF: Statement by Margaret Thatcher after her meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, BBC News, 17 December 1984.
37 AC: Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev.
38 Smith, Reagan and Thatcher, pp. 150–151.
39 Bernard Ingham, Kill the Messenger, HarperCollins, 1994, p. 260.
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