Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography (126 page)

With Ted Heath at the Conservative Party Conference in 1970.

Visiting a primary school as Secretary of State for Education.

With Denis, Carol and Mark.

Meeting the press at Conservative Central Office, 11 February 1975, the day I became Leader of the Conservative Party.

The State Opening of Parliament in 1976. Seated on the front bench, from l-r: Geoffrey Howe, Keith Joseph, Willie Whitelaw, myself, Jim Prior, Francis Pym, Humphrey Atkins.

Delivering the ‘Iron Lady’ speech in Kensington Town Hall in January 1976.

On a walkabout in Huddersfield during the 1979 election campaign.

On the stairs at Central Office following the election victory, with Peter Thorneycroft, Denis, Carol and Mark.

With Denis outside No. 10 on the day I became Prime Minister.

With Denis at the funeral of Airey Neave in April 1979.

Presenting the deeds to one of the first tenants to buy their home under the Government’s new ‘right to buy’ scheme in September 1979.

Addressing the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, on 10 October 1980, when I delivered the famous line ‘The lady’s not for turning’ .

Visiting my old school in Grantham.

HMS
Invincible
returning to Portsmouth at the end of the Falklands War.