Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (150 page)

144
.
Nott to PM, 4 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Industrial Policy: The Future of British Leyland (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
145
.
Interview with Lord Tebbit.
146
.
Lankester to Ellison, 13 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Industrial Policy: The Future of British Leyland (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
147
.
Interview with Lord Tebbit.
148
.
Edwardes to Joseph, 21 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Industrial Policy: The Future of British Leyland (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
149
.
Armstrong to PM, 21 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Industrial Policy: The Future of British Leyland (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
150
.
Joseph draft statement, 22 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Industrial Policy: The Future of British Leyland (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
151
.
Interview with Sir Alfred Sherman.

1
.
Hoskyns to PM, 19 June 1980, The National Archives (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) PREM 19/172.
2
.
Interview with Clive Priestley.
3
.
Ibid.
4
.
See Margaret Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, HarperCollins, 1993, p. 90.
5
.
Interview with Sir John Chilcot.
6
.
Interview with Sir Peter de la Billière.
7
.
Interview with Clive Priestley.
8
.
Ibid.
9
.
Private information.
10
.
Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 48.
11
.
Interview with Sir Robin Ibbs.
12
.
Interview with Lord Armstrong of Ilminster.
13
.
Interview with Clive Priestley.
14
.
Ibid.
15
.
Ian Gilmour,
Dancing with Dogma:
Britain under Thatcherism
, Simon & Schuster, 1992, p. 21.
16
.
Ibid.
17
.
Interview with Robin Day,
Panorama
(BBC1), 25 Feb. 1980 (Christopher Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher 1945–90 on CD-ROM
, Oxford University Press, 1998/2000).
18
.
Sir Robert Armstrong, Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 13 Mar. 1980.
19
.
Interview,
The Jimmy Young Programme
(BBC Radio 2), 30 Apr. 1980 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
20
.
Lawson to PM, 22 Feb. 1980, Prime Minister’s Papers, The Prime Minister’s Meeting with Professor Milton Friedman on 27 February 1980 (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
21
.
Private information.
22
.
Text of Milton Friedman’s evidence to the Treasury Select Committee, as reprinted in the
Observer
, 6 July 1980.
23
.
Memo of meeting between PM and Gordon Pepper, 18 May 1979, TNA: PRO PREM 19/33.
24
.
Sir Robert Armstrong, Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 26 Mar. 1980.
25
.
Interview with Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach.
26
.
Monthly Economic Brief CSO, 31 July 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/173.
27
.
Speech to Press Association annual luncheon, 11 June 1980 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104377
).
28
.
John Hoskyns,
Just in Time: Inside the Thatcher Revolution
, Aurum Press, 2000, p. 187.
29
.
Sir Robert Armstrong, Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 17 June 1980.
30
.
Ibid.
31
.
Interview with Lord Mayhew.
32
.
Ibid.
33
.
Armstrong to Wass, 25 Apr. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/172.
34
.
Armstrong to PM, 2 May 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/172.
35
.
Hoskyns,
Just in Time
, p. 200.
36
.
Interview with Sir Douglas Wass.
37
.
Interview with Lord Burns.
38
.
Ibid.
39
.
All quotations from Sir Robert Armstrong, Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 3 July 1980.
40
.
Ibid., 10 July 1980.
41
.
Hugo Young,
The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics – Off the Record
, Allen Lane, 2008, p. 152.
42
.
Interview with Lord Burns.
43
.
Sunday Times
, 1 Aug. 1980 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104214
).
44
.
Interview with
People Weekly
, 30 July 1980.
45
.
Macmillan to PM, 20 Aug. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/173.
46
.
Interview with Lady Wakeham.
47
.
Interview with Dame Mary Morrison.
48
.
Interview with Lord Gowrie.
49
.
Interview with Richard and Veronique Bowdler-Raynar.
50
.
Private information.
51
.
Pattison to PM, 2 Sept. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/173.
52
.
Interview with Lord Burns.
53
.
Ibid.
54
.
Ibid.
55
.
Hoskyns,
Just in Time
, p. 228.
56
.
Ibid., p. 230.
57
.
Ibid.
58
.
Ibid., p. 231.
59
.
Speech to Conservative Party conference, Brighton, 10 Oct. 1980 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104431
).
60
.
Hoskyns,
Just in Time
, p. 231.
61
.
Speech to Conservative Party conference, Brighton, 10 Oct. 1980 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104431
).
62
.
Hoskyns to PM, 24 Oct. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/174.
63
.
PM to Lankester, 24 Oct. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/174.
64
.
Lankester to Chancellor’s private office, 13 Nov. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/174.
65
.
Ibid.
66
.
Ibid.
67
.
Young,
The Hugo Young Papers
, p. 157.
68
.
Sir Robert Armstrong, Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 30 Oct. 1980.
69
.
Interview with Sir John Hoskyns.
70
.
Sir Robert Armstrong, Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 13 Nov. 1980.
71
.
Ibid.
72
.
Ibid.
73
.
Guardian
, 19 Nov. 1980.
74
.
Geoffrey Howe,
A Conflict of Loyalty
, Macmillan, 1994, p. 190.
75
.
Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 129.
76
.
W. F. Deedes, diary (unpublished), 23 Dec. 1980.
77
.
Howe to PM, 31 Dec. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/174.
78
.
Ingham digest, 29 Dec. 1980, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 3/5/2.
79
.
Interview with
People Weekly
, 30 July 1980 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
80
.
Ingham to Pym, 26 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Economic Policy: Economic Strategy: Pay and Prices (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
81
.
Interview with Sir Robert Wade-Gery.
82
.
Ibid.
83
.
Wiggins to Whitmore, 25 Apr. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/181 (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
84
.
Note by Secretaries to E Committee, 12 June 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/181 (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
85
.
Ibid.
86
.
Howell, Strategy for Coal for E Committee, 10 Sept, 1980, Prime Minister’s Papers, Financial Position of the Coal Industry: Mineworkers’ Pay (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
87
.
Ingham digest, 13 Nov. 1980, THCR 3/5/2.
88
.
Note of Meeting with PM and Ezra, 29 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Financial Position of the Coal Industry: Mineworkers’ Pay (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
89
.
Ingham to PM, 13 Feb. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Financial Position of the Coal Industry: Mineworkers’ Pay (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
90
.
Interviews with Lord Howell of Guildford and Michael Portillo.
91
.
Interview with Lord Howell of Guildford.
92
.
Ingham to PM, 19 Feb. 1981, Financial Position of the Coal Industry: Mineworkers’ Pay (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
93
.
Ingham digest, 19 Feb. 1981, THCR 3/5/3.
94
.
Lankester to West, 20 Feb. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Financial Position of the Coal Industry: Mineworkers’ Pay (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
95
.
Daily Telegraph
, 20 Feb. 1981.
96
.
Interview with Richard Allen.
97
.
Reagan and Thatcher telephone conversation, 21 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, USA: UK/USA Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
98
.
Thomas to PM, 26 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, USA: UK/USA Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
99
.
Thomas to Berthoud, 24 July 1980, TNA: PRO FCO 82/1017.
100
.
Speech at the Pilgrims’ Dinner, London, 29 Jan. 1981 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104557
).
101
.
Reagan to Thatcher, 2 Feb. 1981, UK: Prime Minister Thatcher Cables [1], Box 34, Exec Sec, NSC: Head of State File, Reagan Library, Simi Valley CA.
102
.
Interview with Richard Allen.
103
.
Haig to President, ‘Visit of Prime Minister Thatcher’, 5. Official Working Visit of Prime Minister Thatcher of United Kingdom 02/26/1981 (6 of 8), Box 4, Charles Tyson Files, Reagan Library.
104
.
Allen to Reagan, ‘Your meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher (Thursday, 26 February)’, Papers of Jim Rentschler.
105
.
Anson to Lankester, 21 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, USA: UK/USA Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
106
.
Herbert Stein,
Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Clinton
, 3rd rev. edn, AEI Press, 1994, p. 233.
107
.
Interview with James Baker.
108
.
Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 158.
109
.
Interview with Sir Bernard Ingham.
110
.
Interview with Paul Volcker.
111
.
Sprinkel to Regan, 24 Feb. 1981, Box 185, Papers of Don Regan, Library of Congress, Washington DC.
112
.
‘UK Domestic Economic Policy’, Department of State Briefing Paper, 17 Feb. 1981, released by the US State Department Archive under FOIA Case #200505131.
113
.
Interview with Harvey Thomas.
114
.
Interview with Paul Volcker.
115
.
Memo for the President from Richard V. Allen, 24 Feb. 1981, Papers of Jim Rentschler.
116
.
The
Times
, 26 Feb. 1981.
117
.
New York Times
, 27 Feb. 1981.
118
.
Remarks on arriving at the White House, 26 Feb. 1981 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104576
).
119
.
Ronald Reagan,
The Reagan Diaries
, HarperCollins, 2007, 26 Feb. 1981, p. 5.
120
.
Financial Times
, 27 Feb. 1981.
121
.
Conference for Washington Press Club, 26 Feb. 1981 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104578
).
122
.
Reagan,
The Reagan Diaries
, 27 Feb. 1981, p. 5.
123
.
Interview with Jim Rentschler.
124
.
Ibid.
125
.
See Nicholas Henderson,
Mandarin: The Diaries of an Ambassador 1969–1982
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994, p. 383.
126
.
Speech at British embassy dinner for President Reagan, 27 Feb. 1981 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104581
).
127
.
Ibid., Reagan’s reply.
128
.
Reagan,
The Reagan Diaries
, 27 Feb. 1981, p. 5.
129
.
Henderson,
Mandarin
, p. 388.
130
.
Ibid.
131
.
Ibid.
132
.
Interview with Sir Nicholas Henderson.
133
.
Interview with Kenneth Adelman.
134
.
Reagan,
The Reagan Diaries
, 27 Feb. 1981, p. 5.
135
.
PM to Henderson, 5 Mar. 1981, TNA: PRO PREM 19/600.
136
.
Interview with Lord Butler of Brockwell.
137
.
Interview with Lord Carrington.
138
.
Thatcher to Reagan, 5 Mar. 1981, UK: Prime Minister Thatcher, Box 35, Exec Sec, NSC: Head of State File, Reagan Library.
139
.
Hoskyns to PM, 11 Nov. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/174.
140
.
Hoskyns to PM, 20 Nov. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/174.
141
.
The Times
, 26 Jan. 1981.
142
.
Interview with Lord Owen.
143
.
Ibid.
144
.
Interview with Sir Robin Ibbs.
145
.
Interview with Andrew Duguid.
146
.
Interview with Sir John Hoskyns.
147
.
Nigel Lawson,
The View from No. 11
, Bantam, 1992, p. 64.
148
.
Ibid., p. 65.
149
.
Nigel Lawson, speech to the Zurich Society of Economics, 14 Jan. 1981.
150
.
Hoskyns,
Just in Time
, p. 260.
151
.