She was the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK, and the first of only three women to have held any of the four great offices of state. Read another review that talked about how she spends most of the book trying to justify why she was right, and I see their point. She gives riveting accounts of the great and critical moments of her premiership - the three election victories, the Falklands War, the Miners' Strike, the Brighton Bomb, the Westland Affair, her battles abroad with foreign federalists and at home with faint-hearted or misguided ministers. Maybe this cuddliness is just an act; but it does make you wonder what the political process does to have made them seem quite so inhuman when in the heat of government.

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The restoration brought with it a surprise—the color of 10 Downing Street’s trademark black facade was thanks to two centuries of London pollution. And before anyone else condemns her to hell it is highly likely she'll actually make it to heaven, having confessed Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour, and be greeted with 'well done my good and faithful servant'. The book ends with an account of her last days which is as gripping as anything in thriller fiction. It also spreads out to the left of the front door, taking over much of 12 Downing Street which is itself connected by a corridor to 11 Downing Street, the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

As the years progressed (and due largely to the continued efforts of Norman Tebbit), the TUC was no longer in a position to cripple industry or public services with strikes. Parker's 1993 monograph on Chamberlain and appeasement, and chiefly Sidney Aster's 1989 essay which resurrected the 1940 ‘guilty men’ charges against the appeasers and used Chamberlain's letters to his sisters as the principal evidence. King Canute built a palace in the area and Edward the Confessor had a great abbey constructed nearby. In reality, the policy itself was patently absurd and strongly suggests that by the later years of her premiership Mrs. This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power.

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Whitehall Palace was the official residence of Tudor and Stuart monarchs until it burned down in 1698. Other residents of 10 Downing Street are the Spouse of the Prime Minister and family, Downing Street Director of Communications and Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.Anecdotes are included but they are all relevent to the content of the chapter and never distracting from the flow of the book.

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Thatcher sold them off: British Aerospace, British Petroleum, British Steel, Britoil, British Gas, British Leyland (which included Jaguar and Land Rover), and Rolls Royce.The Thatcher ministry was particularly moved to increase security after the 1979 Assassination of Lord Mountbatten. One of the Queen’s favourites, his main claim to fame was his role in the arrest of Guy Fawkes and the discovery of the Gunpowder plot in 1605. The author's signature is on the bottom margin of a laid-in, book plate, picturing the doorway of 10 Downing St. Compounding the abstruseness of the narrative is a near total lack of pathos, self-reflection, or humor that isn’t biting. Yancey’s encomium upon the election of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy: “The man and the hour have met.