36 Thatcher, p. 647.
37 David Butler, Andrew Adonis and Tony Travers, Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax (Oxford, 1994), p. 64.
38 Ibid.; Baker, p. 122.
39 Speech to the Scottish Conservative conference, Perth, 10 May 1985.
40 Wyatt, p. 467 (20 December 1987).
41 Lawson, pp. 573 – 4.
42 Speech to the Scottish Conservative conference, Perth, 10 June 1986.
43 Speech to the Scottish Conservative conference, Perth, 15 May 1987.
44 John Simpson, Strange Places, Questionable People (Macmillan, 1998), p. 246.
45 Thatcher, p. 573.
46 The Times, 13 June 1987.
47 Remarks in Downing Street, 12 June 1987.
48 Interview for BBC TV, 12 June 1987.
49 Carol Thatcher, p. 246.
22. No Such Thing as Society
1 Sunday Express, 21 June 1987.
2 Woman’s Own, 31 October 1987.
3 Interview on The Jimmy Young Programme, BBC Radio 2, 27 July 1988.
4 Thatcher, p. 626.
5 Millar, p. 319.
6 Cockerell, p. 332.
7 House of Commons, 15 May 1979 [Vol. 967, cols 73 – 87].
8 Remarks visiting London docklands, 21 May 1987.
9 Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 9 October 1987.
10 Annual Register 1987, p. 31.
11 Lawson, p. 747; Thatcher, p. 700.
12 Thatcher, pp. 603 – 4.
13 Social Trends, 1987.
14 Annual Register 1987, p. 25.
15 Ibid., p. 9.
16 House of Commons, 15 December 1987 [Vol. 124, col. 918].
17 Simon Jenkins, p. 77.
18 Eric Jacobs and Robert Worcester, We British: Britain under the Moriscope (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990).
19 Timmins, p. 508.
20 BBC TV, 24 July 1987.
21 Nicholas Ridley, ‘My Style of Government’: The Thatcher Years (Hutchinson, 1991), p. 125.
22 Thatcher, Downing Street Years, p. 654.
23 Speech to 1922 Committee, 20 July 1989.
24 House of Commons, 20 July 1989 [Vol. 157, cols 516 – 17].
25 Thatcher, p. 654.
26 Wyatt,Vol. 2, p. 158 (17 September 1989).
27 House of Commons, 20 March 1990 [Vol. 169, col. 1008].
28 Thatcher, p. 658.
29 Clark, p. 287 (25 March 1990).
30 Chris Patten on BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs, 3 November 1996.
31 House of Commons, 28 November 1989 [Vol. 162, col. 576].
32 Speech to Conservative Local Government conference, 8 March 1989.
33 William Shawcross, Murdoch (Chatto & Windus, 1992), p. 511.
34 Wyatt,Vol. 2, p. 31 (12 February 1989).
35 Speech at the Mansion House, 17 October 1985.
36 The Times, 31 March 1987.
37 Thatcher, p. 701.
38 Timmins, p. 450.
39 Lawson, pp. 815, 824.
40 Speech to Conservative Central Council, Buxton, 19 March 1988.
41 Thatcher, pp. 689 – 90.
42 Keegan, Mr Lawson’s Gamble, p. 188.
43 Thatcher, p. 703.
44 Ridley, p. 211.
45 Press conference, 14 June 1989.
46 Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 99 (4 June 1989).
23. A Diet of Brussels
1 Thatcher, p. 558.
2 Ibid., p. 742.
3 Major, p. 345.
4 Thatcher, p. 744.
5 Cradock, p. 124.
6 e.g. Daily Mail, 17 May 1988.
7 Lawson, p. 903.
8 Charles Powell, interviewed on The Poisoned Chalice.
9 Interview, Sir Leon Brittan.
10 Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (Macmillan, 1998), p. 548.
11 Lawson, p. 907.
12 Speech to the College of Europe, Bruges, 20 September 1988.
13 Sir Michael Butler, interviewed on The Poisoned Chalice.
14 Sir Michael Butler, interviewed for DOHP, Churchill College, Cambridge.
15 Lawson, p. 907.
16 The Times, 25 October 1988.
17 John Campbell, Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986), p. 337.
18 House of Commons, 27 April 1989 [Vol. 151, col. 1089].
19 Ibid., 18 May 1989 [Vol. 153, col. 470].
20 Speech to Conservative Women’s conference, 24 May 1989.
21 Howe, p. 578.
22 Thatcher, pp. 712 – 13.
23 Lawson, p. 933.
24 Thatcher, pp. 711 – 12.
25 Lawson, p. 932.
26 Thatcher, p. 711.
27 Cradock, p. 132.
28 Howe, p. 582.
29 Interview for ITN, 27 June 1989.
30 Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 117 (26 June 1989).
31 Wyatt, reference missing.
32 Thatcher, p. 712.
33 Ibid., p. 758.
34 Ibid., p. 757.
35 Ridley, p. 40.
36 Ranelagh, p. 285.
37 Wyatt,Vol. 2, p. 139 (26 July 1989).
38 Press conference, Dublin, 26 June 1990.
39 Interview for BBC Radio, 14 June 1989.
40 Lawson, p. 898.
41 Douglas Hurd, interviewed on The Poisoned Chalice.
24. Tomorrow the World
1 House of Commons, 28 March 1979 [Vol. 965, col. 470].
2 Daniel Yergan and Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights; The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace that is Remaking the Modern World (Touchstone, New York, 1998), p. 124.
3 Ibid., p. 13.
4 Thatcher, p. 813.
5 George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998), p. 60.
6 Ibid., pp. 68 – 9.
7 Ibid., p. 72.
8 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 80.
9 ibid, pp. 82 – 3.
10 Ibid., p. 83; The Times, 30 March 1990.
11 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 84.
12 Cradock, p. 184.
13 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 84.
14 Press conference in Downing Street, 10 November 1989.
15 Urban, p. 99.
16 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 192.
17 Thatcher, p. 794.
18 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 193.
19 Transcript of telephone conversation, 9 November 1989 (Bush papers, OA/ID CFO 1731).
20 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 253.
21 Ibid., p. 195.
22 Transcript of telephone conversation, 3 December 1989 (Bush papers, OA/ID CFO 1729).
23 Bush and Scowcroft, pp. 198 – 9.
24 Ibid., p. 213.
25 Thatcher, p. 798.
26 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 159.
27 Ibid., p. 214.
28 Ibid., pp. 248 – 9.
29 Ibid., p. 249.
30 Ibid., p. 265.
31 Ibid., p. 294.
32 Thatcher, p. 811.
33 Bush and Scowcroft, p. 295.
34 Financial Times, 11 December 1989.
35 Independent, 25 October 2000.
36 Speech to the Royal Society, 27 September 1988.
37 The Earl of Caithness in Dale, p. 37.
38 Bush papers, 140654.
39 Speech to UN General Assembly, New York, 8 November 1989.
40 Speech to the Royal Society, 27 September 1988; interview in She, February 1989.
41 Margaret Thatcher to George Bush, 7 June 1990 (Bush papers, John Sonunu files CA/ID CF 00151).
42 Speech at World Climate Conference, Geneva, 6 November 1990.