Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality (104 page)

20 THE FALKLANDS WAR II: INTO THE FIGHTING

  
1
  Peter Hennessy,
The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945
, Allen Lane, 2000, p. 104.

  
2
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, pp. 188–189.

  
3
  
Daily Telegraph
, 31 March 2002.

  
4
  Ian Gow to Margaret Thatcher, 8 April 1982, cited in Moore,
Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1
, p. 697.

  
5
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 205.

  
6
  Ibid., pp. 208–209.

  
7
  Sandy Woodward,
One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander
, HarperCollins, 1992, p. 148.

  
8
  CAC: DOHP/57, Sir Antony Acland, p. 32.

  
9
  Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 216.

10
  Hansard, HC Deb 4 May 1982.

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.

  
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.