Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography

by Charles Moore

  CHAPTER 6: MARRIAGE, THE LAW AND FINCHLEY

  1. Letter to Muriel, mid-Feb. 1952 (undated). 2. Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 76. 3. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet: The Biography of Denis Thatcher, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 65. 4. Letter to Muriel, 19 Dec. 1951. 5. Ibid. 6. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 65. 7. Postcard to Muriel, Dec. 1951 (undated). 8. Letter to Muriel, 28 Jan. 1952. 9. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 77. 10. Sunday Graphic, 17 Feb. 1952 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100936). 11. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel, 1 Apr. 1952. 12. Letter to Muriel, 21 Apr. 1952. 13. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 69. 14. Ibid., p. 71. 15. Thatcher, The Path to Power, pp. 80 –81. 16. The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 1/1/1. 17. Ibid. 18. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 71. 19. Letter to Muriel, 20 Sep. 1953. 20. Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher. 21. Letter to Muriel, 20 Jan. 1954. 22. Letter to Muriel, probably mid-Jan. 1955 (undated). 23. Letter to Muriel, 10 July 1958. 24. Letter to Muriel, 3 July 1958. 25. Letter to Muriel, probably early 1960s (undated). 26. Letter to Muriel, 18 Nov. 1963. 27. Letter to Muriel, Sept. 1960 (undated). 28. Letter to Muriel, probably Oct. 1957 (undated). 29. Letter to Muriel, probably Jan. 1955 (undated). 30. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 72. 31. Letter to Muriel, early 1960s (undated). 32. Interview with Carol Thatcher. 33. Ibid. 34. Onward, Apr. 1954 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100939). 35. Letter to Muriel, probably June 1955 (undated). 36. Interview with Carol Thatcher. 37. Interviews with Andrew Cullen and Jane Mayes (née Cullen). 38. Interview with Andrew Cullen. 39. Interview with Carol Thatcher. 40. Letter to Muriel, early 1960s (undated). 41. Letter to Muriel, Jan. or Feb. 1955 (undated). 42. Letter to Muriel, 20 Jan. 1954. 43. Letter to Muriel, 3 July 1958. 44. Letter to Muriel, 16 Feb. 1954. 45. Letter to Muriel, probably Oct. 1957 (undated). 46. Ibid. 47. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 77. 48. Letter to Muriel, probably Oct. 1957 (undated). 49. Letter to Muriel, 31 Dec. 1957. 50. Interview with Carol Thatcher. 51. Letter to Muriel, 20 Jan. 1954. 52. Interview with Pamela Thomas. 53. Interview with Sir Frederick Lawton. 54. Ibid. 55. Ibid. 56. Ibid. 57. Ibid. 58. See Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 84. 59. Ibid. 60. Interview with Sir Frederick Lawton. 61. Ibid. 62. Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher. 63. Letter to Muriel, probably Jan. 1955 (undated). 64. Interview with Lord and Lady Brightman. 65. Ibid. 66. Information from John Stevenson. 67. Quoted in Patricia Murray, Margaret Thatcher, W. H. Allen, 1980, p. 54. 68. Interview with Pamela Thomas. 69. Ibid. 70. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 88. 71. Interview with Lord Jenkin. 72. Interview with Pamela Thomas. 73. Copy at THCR 1/1/1. 74. Ibid. 75. Interview with Muriel Cullen (née Roberts). 76. Grantham Journal, 23 May 1952. 77. Ibid., 13 Feb. 1970. 78. Woman to Woman (Yorkshire Television), 19 Nov. 1985 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105830). 79. Grantham Journal, draft obituary of Lady Thatcher. 80. See letter from John Hare to Margaret Thatcher, 15 Dec. 1954, copy at THCR 1/1/1. 81. Letter to John Hare, 3 Jan. 1955, copy at THCR 1/1/1. 82. Letter to John Hare, wrongly dated 1954, copy at THCR 1/1/1. 83. Letter to Donald Kaberry, 28 Feb. 1956, copy at THCR 1/1/1. 84. Letter to Donald Kaberry, 15 Mar. 1956, copy at THCR 1/1/1. 85. Letter to Donald Kaberry, 2 Dec. 1957, copy at THCR 1/1/1. 86. Letter to Muriel, probably Oct. 1957 (undated). 87. Copy at THCR 1/1/1. 88. Letter to Muriel, 3 July 1958. 89. Interview with Derek Phillips. 90. Interview with John Tiplady. 91. Letter to Donald Kaberry, 18 Aug. 1958, copy at THCR 1/1/1. 92. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 95. 93. Interview with John Tiplady. 94. Interview with Derek Phillips. 95. Interview with Haden Blatch. 96. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 78. 97. Evening Standard, 15 July 1958. 98. Copy at THCR 1/1/1. 99. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 97. 100. See Conservative Party Archive, Bodleian Library, Oxford, CCO 1/12/375. 101. Copy at THCR 1/1/1. 102. Speech at Finchley adoption meeting, 31 July 1958, reported in Finchley Press, 8 Aug. 1958 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100941). 103. Ibid., reported in Finchley Times, 1 Aug. 1958 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100941). 104. Ibid. 105. Interview with John Tiplady. 106. Letter to Miss Burgess, 17 Sept. 1958, CCO 1/12/375. 107. Interview with Lady Thatcher. 108. Ibid. 109. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 98. 110. David Kynaston, Family Britain, 1951–57 (in the series Tales of a New Jerusalem), Bloomsbury, 2009, p. 697. 111. Quoted in Alistair Horne, Macmillan, vol. ii: 1957–86, Macmillan, 1989, p. 62. 112. Ibid., p. 143. 113. Finchley Press, 26 Mar. 1959. 114. All above quotations from speech in Friern Barnet, 3 Apr. 1959, reported in Finchley Press, 10 Apr. 1959 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101016). 115. Speech at adoption meeting, 21 Sept. 1959, reported in Finchley Borough News, 26 Sept. 1959 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100944). 116. Interview with Evening News, 5 Oct. 1959 (Christopher Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher 1945–90 on CD-ROM, Oxford University Press, 1998/2000). 117. Ibid.

  CHAPTER 7: MEMBER, MINISTER

  1. Interview with Paddi Lilley. 2. Ibid. 3. Letter to Muriel, 15 Oct. 1959. 4. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel, 18 Oct. 1959. 5. Conversation with Lady Thatcher. 6. Any Questions? (BBC Light Programme), 8 Jan. 1960 (Christopher Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher 1945–90 on CD-ROM, Oxford University Press, 1998/2000). 7. Evening News, 22 Jan. 1960 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101053). 8. Papers relating to the compilation of Lady Thatcher’s memoirs, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 4/4. 9. Interview with Paddi Lilley. 10. See Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power, HarperCollins, 1995, pp. 109 ff. 11. Ibid., p. 111. 12. John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher, 2 vols, Jonathan Cape, 2000, 2003, vol. i: The Grocer’s Daughter. 13. Hansard, SC Deb (C) 6 Apr. 1960. 14. Interview with Lord Simon of Glaisdale. 15. The National Archives (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) HLG 29/490 XC10776. 16. TNA: PRO HLG 29/490 XC10776, HA (59) 153. 17. TNA: PRO HLG 29/490 XC10776. 18. Ibid. 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid. 21. Interview with Lord Deedes. 22. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 112. 23. All above quotations from Hansard, HC Deb 5 Feb. 1960 (http://www. margaretthatcher.org/document/101055). 24. Sunday Dispatch, 7 Feb. 1960 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 25. Evening News, 25 Feb. 1960 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 26. All above quotations from Daily Express, 4 Mar. 1960 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100948). 27. Hansard, HC Deb 13 May 1960 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101069). 28. Any Questions? (BBC Light Programme), 4 Nov. 1960. 29. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel Cullen, 13 Apr. 1961. 30. All quotations from Hansard, SC Deb (B) 14 Feb. 1961 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101088). 31. Ibid. 32. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel Cullen, 26 Aug. 1960. 33. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel Cullen, 16 Sept. 1960. 34. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel Cullen, 27 Sept. 1960. 35. Liverpool Daily Post, 6 Dec. 1960 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100954). 36. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel Cullen, 23 Dec. 1961. 37. Letter to Muriel, late 1960 (undated). 38. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel Cullen, 27 Apr. 1961. 39. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel Cullen, 24 June 1961. 40. Letter from Margaret Thatcher to Alfred Roberts, 4 Sept. 1961. 41. Letter from Margaret Thatcher to Alfred Roberts, probably June 1962 (undated). 42. Interview with Carol Thatcher. 43. Letter from Alfred Roberts to Muriel Cullen, 17 Apr. 1962. 44. Daily Express, 17 Apr. 1961 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 45. Ibid. 46. Peter Catterall (ed), The Macmillan Diaries, vol. ii: Prime Minister and After, 1957–1966, Macmillan, 2011, p. 417. 47. Sheffield Telegraph, 11 Oct. 1961 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 48. Cutting from unidentified newspaper, 10 Oct. 1961 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101112). 49. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 119. 50. Ibid. 51. Ibid., pp. 118–19. 52. Interview with Lady Thatcher. 53. John Boyd-Carpenter, Way of Life, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980, p. 133. 54. Ibid. 55. Interview with Sir Michael Partridge. 56. MPNI Annual Report 1962. 57. Hansard, SC Deb (B) 5 Dec. 1961 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101121). 58. Hansard, HC Deb 13 Dec. 1961 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101123). 59. Ibid., 13 Mar. 1962 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/10
1134). 60. Ibid., 22 Jan. 1964 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101222). 61. Ibid., 6 Feb. 1963 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101172). 62. Ibid., 13 Mar. 1962. 63. Ibid., 6 Feb. 1963 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101173). 64. Ibid., 13 July 1962 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101153). 65. Boyd-Carpenter, Way of Life, pp. 257–8. 66. Richard Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, vol. iii: Secretary of State for Social Services 1968–70, ed. Janet Morgan, Hamish Hamilton/Jonathan Cape, 1977, 26 Oct. 1969. 67. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 120. 68. THCR 4/4. 69. Ibid. 70. Ibid. 71. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 121. 72. Interview with Sir Clive Bossom. 73. Speech to Finchley Conservatives, 14 Aug. 1961, reported in Finchley Press, 18 Aug. 1961 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101105). 74. Remarks at Conservative Association meeting, 10 Aug. 1962, reported in Finchley Press, 17 Aug. 1962 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101156). 75. Speech at Finchley Conservative Fair, 22 June 1963, reported in Finchley Press, 28 June 1963 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101191). 76. Hansard, HC Deb 19 Apr. 1961 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101095). 77. Speech to Finchley Conservative Women, 15 Mar. 1962, reported in Finchley Press, 23 Mar. 1962 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101135). 78. Remarks at Conservative Association meeting, 10 Aug. 1962, reported in Finchley Press, 17 Aug. 1962 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101156). 79. Ibid. 80. Letter from Margaret Thatcher to Alfred Roberts (undated). 81. Interview with Lady Thatcher. 82. Speech to Finchley Conservative Women, 11 July 1963, reported in Finchley Press, 19 July 1963 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101195). 83. See Alistair Horne, Macmillan, vol. ii: 1957–86, Macmillan, 1989. 84. Interview with Lady Thatcher. 85. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 129. 86. Interview with Lady Thatcher. 87. Ibid. 88. Letter from Margaret Thatcher to Alfred Roberts, 18 Nov. 1963. 89. THCR 4/4. 90. Thatcher, The Path to Power, p. 128. 91. Ibid., p. 129. 92. Interview with Lady Thatcher. 93. Speech to Finchley Conservatives (Whetstone Ward dinner), 19 Oct. 1963, reported in Finchley Press, 25 Oct. 1963 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101200). 94. See article by Margaret Thatcher in Conservative Viewpoint, 31 Dec. 1963 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101219). 95. Speech to Finchley Conservative Women, 16 Apr. 1964, reported in Finchley Press, 24 Apr. 1964 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101233). 96. Remarks visiting Golders Green (Brains Trust), 13 Feb. 1964, reported in Finchley Times, 21 Feb. 1964 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100962). 97. THCR 4/4. 98. D. E. Butler and Anthony King, The British General Election of 1964, Macmillan, 1965. 99. Interview with Lord Donoughue. 100. Daily Telegraph, 5 Oct. 1964 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements).

  CHAPTER 8: OPPOSITION, 1964–1970

  1. Papers relating to the compilation of Lady Thatcher’s memoirs, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 4/4. 2. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet: The Biography of Denis Thatcher HarperCollins, 1996, p. 91. 3. Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher. 4. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 92. 5. Interview with Carol Thatcher. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher. 9. Interview with Lady Thatcher. 10. Hansard, HC Deb 3 Dec. 1964 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101285). 11. Ibid. 12. Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 93. 13. Finchley Press, 29 Jan. 1965 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101308). 14. Conversation with Sir Denis Thatcher. 15. Information from THCR 4/4. 16. Ibid. 17. Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 136. 18. Ibid., p. 135. 19. THCR 4/4. 20. Finchley Press, 13 Aug. 1965 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101346). 21. THCR 4/4. 22. See Hansard, HC Deb 6 Dec. 1965 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101366). 23. Daily Mail, 10 May 1966. 24. Speech to Reading Conservative Women, 21 May 1965, reported in Reading Chronicle, 28 May 1965 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101330). 25. News of the World, 5 May 1968 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101617). 26. Speech to Motor Agents’ Association, 21 Oct. 1969 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101693). 27. THCR 4/4. 28. Hansard, HC Deb 31 Jan. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101442). 29. THCR 4/4. 30. Hansard, HC Deb 28 July 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101513). 31. Ibid., 5 May 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101481). 32. Ibid. 33. Ibid. 34. See Hansard, HC Deb 27 June 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101497). 35. Ibid., 12 July 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101505). 36. Ibid., 20 July 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101511). 37. Ibid., 25 Oct. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101523). 38. James Prior, A Balance of Power, Hamish Hamilton, 1986, p. 42. 39. Any Questions? (BBC Light Programme), Culdrose, 10 June 1966, BBC Written Archives. 40. Ibid. (BBC Radio 1 and 2), Leeds, 5 Apr. 1968 (Christopher Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher 1945–90 on CD-ROM, Oxford University Press, 1998/2000). 41. Ibid., Northampton, 30 Jan. 1970 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 42. Ibid., Plymouth, 4 Oct. 1968 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 43. THCR 4/4. 44. Ibid. 45. Woman’s Hour (BBC Radio 4), 9 Apr. 1970 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101845). 46. Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 10 Oct. 1969 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101687). 47. Letter to Muriel, 18 Oct. 1966. 48. Speech to Finchley Conservatives, 10 Mar. 1966, reported in Finchley Press, 18 Mar. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101458). 49. Finchley Press, 25 Mar. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101472). 50. Ibid. 51. Daily Telegraph Magazine, 18 Mar. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101465). 52. Speech in Finchley, 18 Mar. 1966, reported in Finchley Press, 25 Mar. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101466). 53. Speech in Finchley, 14 Mar. 1966, reported in Finchley Press, 18 Mar. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101460). 54. Hansard, HC Deb 26 July 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101512). 55. Hansard, HC Deb 28 July 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101513). 56. Finchley Press, 2 Sept. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101516). 57. Hansard, HC Deb 27 June 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101497). 58. See Hansard, HC Deb 25 Oct. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101523). 59. Hansard, HC Deb 31 Jan 1967 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101539). 60. Any Questions? (BBC Light Programme), Paignton, 18 Nov. 1966 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 61. Hansard, HC Deb 30 Nov. 1966 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101530). 62. Ibid., 17 Apr. 1967 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101551). 63. Ibid. 64. Ibid., 6 June 1967 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101564). 65. Building Societies Gazette, 9 Oct. 1967 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 66. Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 20 Oct. 1967 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101586). 67. Sunday Times, 5 Mar. 1967. 68. Hansard, HC Deb 26 Oct. 1967 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101587). 69. Any Questions? (BBC Radio 1 and 2), Llandaff, 3 Nov. 1967 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 70. All above quotations from Hansard, HC Deb 28 Nov. 1967 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101594). 71. Hansard, HC Deb 1 May 1968 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101616). 72. THCR 4/4. 73. Ibid. 74. Daily Mirror, 10 Oct. 1968 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 75. THCR 4/4. 76. Ibid. 77. Ibid. 78. Ibid. 79. John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher, 2 vols, Jonathan Cape, 2000, 2003, vol. i: The Grocer’s Daughter, p. 205. 80. Speech to Finchley Conservatives (Association AGM), 3 Mar. 1970, reported in Finchley Press, 6 Mar. 1970 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101721). 81. Interview with Andrew Alexander. 82. Daily Telegraph, 17 Mar. and 26 Apr. 1969 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101650; http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101651). 83. Speech to Finchley Anglo-Israel Friendship League, 24 June 1965, reported in Finchley Press, 2 July 1965 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101293). 84. Ibid., reported in Finchley Times, 2 July 1965 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101293). 85. Ibid., reported in Finchley Press, 2 July 1965 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101293). 86. See article by Giles Scott-Smith, ‘ “Her Rather Ambitious Washington Program”: Margaret Thatcher’s International Visitor Program Visit to
the United States in 1967’, British Contemporary History, vol. XVII, no. 4, Winter 2003. 87. THCR 1/10/1. 88. See the Appointment Books of Walt Rostow, 2 Mar. 1967, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin TX. 89. Campbell, Margaret Thatcher, vol. i, p. 176. 90. Jean Lashly to Natalie Greening, 29 Mar. 1967, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Collection (CU), Box 155, Folder 26. Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries Fayetteville. 91. Main source for Mrs Thatcher’s recollections of the visit: THCR 4/4. 92. CU archives, University of Arkansas Libraries. 93. Houston Post, 9 Mar. 1967. 94. CU archives, University of Arkansas Libraries. 95. THCR 4/4. 96. Thatcher, The Path to Power, pp. 154–5. 97. Hansard, HC Deb 2 May 1967 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101558). 98. Any Questions? (BBC Radio 1 and 2), Llandaff, 3 Nov. 1967 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 99. Hansard, HC Deb 6 June 1967, http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101564). 100. Katharine Winn to Frances McPheeters, 19 Feb. 1969, English-Speaking Union (ESU) Archive, London. 101. Katharine Winn to Frances McPheeters, 14 Feb. 1969, ESU Archive. 102. Ibid. 103. Mary Taggart to Frances McPheeters, 19 Mar. 1969, ESU Archive. 104. All ensuing quotations from THCR 4/4. 105. Ibid. 106. Ibid. 107. Conservative Party Archive, Bodleian Library, Oxford, LCC 1/2/6. 108. Ibid., LCC 1/2/8. 109. Speech to Finchley Conservatives (Association AGM), 4 Mar. 1965, reported in Finchley Press, 12 Mar. 1965 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101312). 110. Speech to Friern Barnet Young Conservatives, 15 Sept. 1967, reported in Finchley Press, 22 Sept. 1967 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101584). 111. Conservative Party Archive, CRD 3/8/8. 112. BBC Radio News, 21 Oct. 1969 (Collins, ed., Complete Public Statements). 113. Hansard, HC Deb 31 Oct. 1969 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101702). 114. Conservative Party Archive, LCC 1/2/18. 115. Hansard, SC (A) 5 May 1970 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101744). 116. Letter to Muriel, 3 Nov. 1969. 117. Letter to Muriel, 4 Dec. 1969. 118. THCR 4/4. 119. Interview with Carol Thatcher. 120. Daily Telegraph, 11 Feb. 1970. 121. Interview with Muriel Cullen. 122. Ibid. 123. Ibid. 124. Edward Heath, The Course of my Life, Hodder & ºStoughton, 1998, p. 301. 125. Ibid., p. 302. 126. Conservative Party Archive, CRD 3/9/93. 127. Ibid. 128. See Campbell, Margaret Thatcher, vol. i, pp. 206–7. 129. General election address, 28 May 1970 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101754). 130. Interview with John Izbicki. 131. See Carol Thatcher, Below the Parapet, p. 97.