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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Margaret_Thatcher_(1983).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg/75px-Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="75" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg/113px-Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg/150px-Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2444" data-file-height="3259" /></a></span></td> <td class="sidebar-person-title" style="background-color:#0087DC;color: #FFF;"><div><span class="tmp-color" style="color: #FFF">This article is part of <br />a series about</span></div><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher"><span class="tmpl-colored-link" style="color: #FFF; text-decoration: inherit;">Margaret Thatcher</span></a></span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Bibliography of Margaret Thatcher">Bibliography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Electoral history of Margaret Thatcher">Electoral history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_honours_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="List of honours of Margaret Thatcher">Honours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finchley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Finchley (UK Parliament constituency)">MP for Finchley</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Public_Bodies_(Admission_to_Meetings)_Act_1960" title="Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960">Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;font-size:85%;">Secretary of State for Education and Science</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Circular_10/70" title="Circular 10/70">Circular 10/70</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_Act_1944#School_meals_and_milk" title="Education Act 1944">Withdrawal of school milk</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;font-size:85%;">Leader of the Opposition</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher">Shadow Cabinet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1975_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1975 Conservative Party leadership election">1975 leadership election</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_vote_of_no_confidence_in_the_Callaghan_ministry" title="1979 vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry">1979 VoNC in Callaghan ministry</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Premiership of Margaret Thatcher">Premiership</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">Policies</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thatcherism" title="Thatcherism">Thatcherism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Social_history_of_the_United_Kingdom_(1979%E2%80%93present)#Thatcher's_Britain" title="Social history of the United Kingdom (1979–present)">domestic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_United_Kingdom#1979–1990:_the_Thatcher_era" title="Economic history of the United Kingdom">economic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_history_of_the_United_Kingdom_(1979%E2%80%93present)#Margaret_Thatcher_(1979–90)" title="Political history of the United Kingdom (1979–present)">other</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">Appointments</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ministers_under_Margaret_Thatcher" title="List of ministers under Margaret Thatcher">Ministers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wets_and_dries" title="Wets and dries">wets and dries</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> Articles by ministry and term:<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="line-height:normal;"> <div style="font-weight:bold;margin:0 4em;">1979–1983</div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="line-height:16px;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Thatcher_ministry" title="First Thatcher ministry">First ministry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979 election</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_lady%27s_not_for_turning" title="The lady's not for turning">"The lady's not for turning"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/There_is_no_alternative" title="There is no alternative">"TINA"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_1979_United_Kingdom_budget" title="June 1979 United Kingdom budget">1979 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1980 United Kingdom budget">1980 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1981 United Kingdom budget">1981 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1982 United Kingdom budget">1982 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1983 United Kingdom budget">1983 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falklands_War" title="Falklands War">Falklands War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_to_Buy#Thatcher_policies" title="Right to Buy">Right to Buy</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="line-height:normal;"> <div style="font-weight:bold;margin:0 4em;">1983–1987</div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="line-height:16px;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Thatcher_ministry" title="Second Thatcher ministry">Second ministry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983 re-election</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1984 United Kingdom budget">1984 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1985 United Kingdom budget">1985 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1986 United Kingdom budget">1986 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1987 United Kingdom budget">1987 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Agreement" title="Anglo-Irish Agreement">Anglo-Irish Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Bang_(financial_markets)" title="Big Bang (financial markets)">Big Bang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing" title="Brighton hotel bombing">Brighton bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration" title="Sino-British Joint Declaration">Joint Declaration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984%E2%80%931985_United_Kingdom_miners%27_strike" title="1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike">Miners' strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_rebate" title="UK rebate">UK rebate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westland_affair" title="Westland affair">Westland affair</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="line-height:normal;"> <div style="font-weight:bold;margin:0 4em;">1987–1990</div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="line-height:16px;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Third_Thatcher_ministry" title="Third Thatcher ministry">Third ministry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987 re-election</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1988 United Kingdom budget">1988 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1989 United Kingdom budget">1989 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1989 Conservative Party leadership election">1989 leadership election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1990 United Kingdom budget">1990 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1990 Conservative Party leadership election">1990 leadership election and resignation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruges_speech" title="Bruges speech">Bruges speech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poll_tax_(Great_Britain)" title="Poll tax (Great Britain)">Poll tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mound" title="Sermon on the Mound">Sermon on the Mound</a></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">Post-premiership</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_funeral_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher">Ceremonial funeral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher#Legacy" title="Margaret Thatcher">Legacy</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">Publications</div> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>The Downing Street Years</i> (1993)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Path_to_Power_(Thatcher_book)" title="The Path to Power (Thatcher book)"><i>The Path to Power</i> (1995)</a></li> <li><a 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Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a>, covering <a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Premiership of Margaret Thatcher">her premiership of 1979 to 1990</a>. It was accompanied by a four-part <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> television series of the same name. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Downing_Street_Years&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thatcher's close friend <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wyatt" title="Woodrow Wyatt">Woodrow Wyatt</a> recounted in his diary on 3 February 1989 a conversation he had with <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a> who wanted Thatcher to write her equivalent of <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Perestroika" title="Perestroika">Perestroika</a></i>, explaining <a href="/wiki/Thatcherism" title="Thatcherism">her philosophy</a> and that <a href="/wiki/John_O%27Sullivan_(columnist)" title="John O'Sullivan (columnist)">John O'Sullivan</a> could do all the "donkey work" for her. Wyatt countered this by stating that the chairman of the publishing house Collins had tried to get him to persuade Thatcher to publish her memoirs with Collins and Thatcher herself seemed favourable to this option.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt200024_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt200024-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next day Wyatt put Murdoch's idea to Thatcher but she claimed she did not have the time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt200025_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt200025-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 29 November 1990, the day after Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister, Wyatt told her of Murdoch's suggestion of O'Sullivan as a helper, to which Thatcher responded: "What a wonderful idea. That would be marvellous".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000410_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000410-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 6 November Thatcher told Wyatt that <a href="/wiki/George_Weidenfeld,_Baron_Weidenfeld" title="George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld">George Weidenfeld</a> of publishers <a href="/wiki/Weidenfeld_%26_Nicolson" title="Weidenfeld & Nicolson">Weidenfeld & Nicolson</a> had approached her about her memoirs but Wyatt warned her off him and advocated doing a deal with Murdoch. Thatcher replied: "I would prefer to do it with Rupert because he has been so wonderful and supportive of me, even if I do it for a little less".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000417_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000417-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 11 December Wyatt recorded that Murdoch had visited Thatcher but that she had not made up her mind about what sort of book she would write and that she would not accept an advance on a book she had not started writing. Murdoch said she was the first author who he had heard would not do that.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000421_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000421-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 28 January 1991 Thatcher told Wyatt that she wanted to deal with Murdoch directly and did not really want an agent.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000445_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000445-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, by 23 March Wyatt was writing that Thatcher "seemed to be all over the shop now with her book" and he said to Murdoch that he thought she was going to do a deal with him but "Now she is apparently putting out tenders to publishers and agents". Murdoch replied: "Yes, it's <a href="/wiki/Mark_Thatcher" title="Mark Thatcher">Mark Thatcher</a>, the son, who has taken charge of her affairs and she is doing everything he tells her. He has even got a <a href="/wiki/Robert_Maxwell" title="Robert Maxwell">Maxwell</a> publisher (Macmillan of New York) on the list. When people talked about getting three to four million for her memoirs, Mark replied that he could get more than double that, eight to ten million. Good luck to him if he can but I don't think he will".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000483_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000483-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 26 April Wyatt was writing that <a href="/wiki/Mark_Thatcher" title="Mark Thatcher">Mark Thatcher</a> "has fouled everything up with people who might help her write it and publishers and all the rest of it".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000502_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000502-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 9 May Wyatt was still despondent: "I am desperately worried about her. I feel that Mark has mucked up her chances of a quick, high-priced sale for her memoirs".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000511_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000511-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mark_Thatcher" title="Mark Thatcher">Mark Thatcher</a> openly talked of getting eight, ten or even twenty million for his mother's memoirs, which was more than Murdoch was willing to pay. In his dealing's with Murdoch's rival <a href="/wiki/Robert_Maxwell" title="Robert Maxwell">Robert Maxwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Thatcher" title="Mark Thatcher">Mark Thatcher</a> apparently had a one million fee for himself. On 21 April 1991 Murdoch used the front page of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a></i> to denounce his interference.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thatcher was indignant and said to Wyatt: "How can Rupert do this to me?"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000501_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000501-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Murdoch told Wyatt later that day: "None of her friends dare tell her what a dreadful mess Mark is making of her affairs"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000501_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000501-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, in June the Maxwell deal fell through and a week after this Mrs Thatcher signed to Marvin Josephson, an American agent, who quickly accepted a £3.5 million deal with HarperCollins for two books to be published in 1993 and 1995. The publishing world believed that <a href="/wiki/Mark_Thatcher" title="Mark Thatcher">Mark Thatcher</a> had got the worst of both worlds by demanding too much at first and then losing the prime moment by dithering in the negotiations while the value of the memoirs declined.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thatcher had eighteen months to write the book covering her premiership. She hired a previous director of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Research_Department" title="Conservative Research Department">Conservative Research Department</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robin_Harris_(author)" title="Robin Harris (author)">Robin Harris</a>, to do most of the writing, the Oxford academic Christopher Collins to do the research and O'Sullivan to help polish the drafts. Just like with her speeches, Thatcher would "edit, criticise and exhaustively rewrite the drafts" until she was happy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some sources believe that Thatcher wrote at least part of the book at the <a href="/wiki/The_Manor_House,_Castle_Combe" title="The Manor House, Castle Combe">Manor House Hotel</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Castle_Combe" title="Castle Combe">Castle Combe</a>, in the Full Glass bar.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Downing_Street_Years&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Downing Street Years</i> were published on 18 October 1993, timed to coincide with the Conservative Party conference. It was serialised in <i>The Sunday Times</i> on the Sunday after the conference closed. There were rumours the book would not be helpful to her successor, <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a>, and these were confirmed when the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mirror" title="Daily Mirror">Daily Mirror</a></i> leaked her views that Major had "swallowed ... the slogans of the European lobby ... intellectually ... [he] was drifting with the tide". The editor of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Simon_Jenkins" title="Simon Jenkins">Simon Jenkins</a>, denounced her criticisms of Major.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However at the conference Thatcher tried hard to be loyal to Major and she was even seen greeting <a href="/wiki/Michael_Heseltine" title="Michael Heseltine">Michael Heseltine</a>. After Major made a speech saying he was going "<a href="/wiki/Back_to_Basics_(campaign)" title="Back to Basics (campaign)">back to basics</a>", Thatcher praised him for returning to "the true path of Conservatism". </p><p>Thatcher was interviewed with <a href="/wiki/David_Frost" title="David Frost">David Frost</a> on <i><a href="/wiki/Breakfast_with_Frost" title="Breakfast with Frost">Breakfast with Frost</a></i> about her memoirs,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and she promoted her book with radio and television interviews, book signings, a question and answer session at the Barbican chaired by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Archer" title="Jeffrey Archer">Jeffrey Archer</a> and a four-part BBC television series.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Howe" title="Geoffrey Howe">Geoffrey Howe</a> reviewed the book in the <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Lawson" title="Nigel Lawson">Nigel Lawson</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Evening_Standard" title="Evening Standard">Evening Standard</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hurd" title="Douglas Hurd">Douglas Hurd</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Norman_Tebbit" title="Norman Tebbit">Norman Tebbit</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Ingham" title="Bernard Ingham">Bernard Ingham</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></i>. </p><p>One of her biographers, <a href="/wiki/John_Campbell_(biographer)" title="John Campbell (biographer)">John Campbell</a>, wrote of the book: </p> <blockquote><p>The book has its <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/longueur" class="extiw" title="wikt:longueur"><i>longueurs</i></a>, but it is still by far the most comprehensive and readable of modern prime ministerial memoirs: partisan of course, but generally a clear and vivid account of her side of the arguments. Of course it aggrandises her role, exaggerates the degree to which she knew where she was going from the beginning, slides over her moments of doubt and hesitation and diminishes the role of most of her colleagues, aides and advisers. It is a shockingly ungenerous book, shot through with gratuitously withering comments not only about people like <a href="/wiki/Michael_Heseltine" title="Michael Heseltine">Michael Heseltine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Howe" title="Geoffrey Howe">Geoffrey Howe</a> whom she had some cause to feel bitter about, but also about other inoffensive colleagues who had served her well. Only <a href="/wiki/William_Whitelaw,_1st_Viscount_Whitelaw" class="mw-redirect" title="William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw">Willie Whitelaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Keith_Joseph" title="Keith Joseph">Keith Joseph</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denis_Thatcher" title="Denis Thatcher">Denis</a> are beyond criticism, plus of course <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Ingham" title="Bernard Ingham">Bernard Ingham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Powell,_Baron_Powell_of_Bayswater" title="Charles Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater">Charles Powell</a>. Other officials are barely mentioned. Nevertheless <i>The Downing Street Years</i> is a good record.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776–777_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776–777-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Downing_Street_Years&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Path_to_Power_(Thatcher_book)" title="The Path to Power (Thatcher book)"><i>The Path to Power</i> (Thatcher book)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Downing_Street_Years&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output 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<span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWyatt2000">Wyatt 2000</a>, p. 417.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000421-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000421_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWyatt2000">Wyatt 2000</a>, p. 421.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000445-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000445_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWyatt2000">Wyatt 2000</a>, p. 445.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000483-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000483_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWyatt2000">Wyatt 2000</a>, p. 483.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000502-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000502_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWyatt2000">Wyatt 2000</a>, p. 502.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000511-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000511_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWyatt2000">Wyatt 2000</a>, p. 511.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003756_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCampbell2003">Campbell 2003</a>, p. 756.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000501-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000501_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWyatt2000501_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWyatt2000">Wyatt 2000</a>, p. 501.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/wiltshire/hotels/the-manor-house-hotel/">"Manor House"</a>, <i>The Telegraph</i>, 3 October 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 March</span> 2021</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Telegraph&rft.atitle=Manor+House&rft.date=2017-10-03&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Ftravel%2Fdestinations%2Feurope%2Funited-kingdom%2Fengland%2Fwiltshire%2Fhotels%2Fthe-manor-house-hotel%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Downing+Street+Years" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ELKbDwAAQBAJ&dq=castle+combe+Manor+House++Margaret+thatcher+wrote+memoirs&pg=PT189"><i>The Rough Guide to the Great West Way</i></a>, Apa Publications, March 2019, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781789195309" title="Special:BookSources/9781789195309"><bdi>9781789195309</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 March</span> 2021</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rough+Guide+to+the+Great+West+Way&rft.pub=Apa+Publications&rft.date=2019-03&rft.isbn=9781789195309&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DELKbDwAAQBAJ%26dq%3Dcastle%2Bcombe%2BManor%2BHouse%2B%2BMargaret%2Bthatcher%2Bwrote%2Bmemoirs%26pg%3DPT189&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Downing+Street+Years" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCampbell2003">Campbell 2003</a>, p. 776.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation interview cs1">"Margaret Thatcher". <i>Breakfast with Frost</i> (Interview). Interviewed by David Frost. London: BBC. 17 October 1993.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Breakfast+with+Frost&rft.atitle=Margaret+Thatcher&rft.date=1993-10-17&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Downing+Street+Years" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776–777-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003776–777_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCampbell2003">Campbell 2003</a>, pp. 776–777.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Downing_Street_Years&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCampbell2003" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/John_Campbell_(biographer)" title="John Campbell (biographer)">Campbell, John</a> (2003), <i>Margaret Thatcher, Volume II: The Iron Lady</i>, Jonathan Cape, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0099516772" title="Special:BookSources/0099516772"><bdi>0099516772</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Margaret+Thatcher%2C+Volume+II%3A+The+Iron+Lady&rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0099516772&rft.aulast=Campbell&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Downing+Street+Years" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWyatt2000" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wyatt" title="Woodrow Wyatt">Wyatt, Woodrow</a> (2000), <i>The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt. Volume Two</i>, Pan, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0333774051" title="Special:BookSources/0333774051"><bdi>0333774051</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Journals+of+Woodrow+Wyatt.+Volume+Two&rft.pub=Pan&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=0333774051&rft.aulast=Wyatt&rft.aufirst=Woodrow&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Downing+Street+Years" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Downing_Street_Years&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFColley1993" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Linda_Colley" title="Linda Colley">Colley, Linda</a> (16 December 1993), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n24/linda-colley/let-them-cut-grass">"Let them cut grass"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/London_Review_of_Books" title="London Review of Books">London Review of Books</a></i>, <b>15</b> (24): 7–8</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=London+Review+of+Books&rft.atitle=Let+them+cut+grass&rft.volume=15&rft.issue=24&rft.pages=7-8&rft.date=1993-12-16&rft.aulast=Colley&rft.aufirst=Linda&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lrb.co.uk%2Fv15%2Fn24%2Flinda-colley%2Flet-them-cut-grass&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Downing+Street+Years" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohnson1993" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/R._W._Johnson" title="R. W. Johnson">Johnson, R. W.</a> (2 December 1993), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n23/rw-johnson/schadenfreude">"Schadenfreude"</a>, <i>London Review of Books</i>, <b>15</b> (23): 3–6</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=London+Review+of+Books&rft.atitle=Schadenfreude&rft.volume=15&rft.issue=23&rft.pages=3-6&rft.date=1993-12-02&rft.aulast=Johnson&rft.aufirst=R.+W.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lrb.co.uk%2Fv15%2Fn23%2Frw-johnson%2Fschadenfreude&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Downing+Street+Years" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Downing_Street_Years&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation interview cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?52741-1/the-downing-street-years">"<i>The Downing Street Years</i> by Margaret Thatcher"</a> (Interview). 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Washington: C-SPAN. 5 December 1993.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Downing+Street+Years+by+Margaret+Thatcher&rft.place=Washington&rft.pub=C-SPAN&rft.date=1993-12-05&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.c-span.org%2Fvideo%2F%3F52741-1%2Fthe-downing-street-years&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Downing+Street+Years" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output 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the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> (1979–1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)">Leader of the Conservative Party</a> (1975–1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">MP for <a href="/wiki/Finchley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Finchley (UK Parliament constituency)">Finchley</a> (1959–1992)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Member of Parliament</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Public_Bodies_(Admission_to_Meetings)_Act_1960" title="Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960">Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act (1960)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circular_10/70" title="Circular 10/70">Circular 10/70</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher">Shadow Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Britain_Awake" title="Britain Awake">"Britain Awake" (1976)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_vote_of_no_confidence_in_the_Callaghan_ministry" title="1979 vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry">Vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry (1979)</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Margaret_Thatcher_(1983).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg/85px-Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg/128px-Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg 1.5x, 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ministers_under_Margaret_Thatcher" title="List of ministers under Margaret Thatcher">Ministers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wets_and_dries" title="Wets and dries">wets and dries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War_(1979%E2%80%931985)" title="Cold War (1979–1985)">1st term</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War_(1985%E2%80%931991)" title="Cold War (1985–1991)">2nd–3rd term</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal"><a href="/wiki/First_Thatcher_ministry" title="First Thatcher ministry">1st ministry<br />(1979–1983)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/June_1979_United_Kingdom_budget" title="June 1979 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1979)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1980 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1980)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_lady%27s_not_for_turning" title="The lady's not for turning">"The lady's not for turning" (1980)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1981 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1981)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gang_of_25" title="Gang of 25">Gang of 25</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike" title="1981 Irish hunger strike">Irish hunger strike (1981)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1982 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1982)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falklands_War" title="Falklands War">Falklands War</a> (1982) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rejoice_(Margaret_Thatcher)" title="Rejoice (Margaret Thatcher)">"Rejoice"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Gould%E2%80%93Margaret_Thatcher_exchange" title="Diana Gould–Margaret Thatcher exchange">Diana Gould exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_flags_over_Port_Stanley" title="White flags over Port Stanley">"White flags over Port Stanley"</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1983 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1983)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal"><a href="/wiki/Second_Thatcher_ministry" title="Second Thatcher ministry">2nd ministry<br />(1983–1987)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1984_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1984 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1984)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing" title="Brighton hotel bombing">Brighton hotel bombing</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GCHQ_trade_union_ban" title="GCHQ trade union ban">GCHQ trade union ban</a> (1984) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Civil_Service_Unions_v_Minister_for_the_Civil_Service" title="Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service">CCSU case</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984%E2%80%931985_United_Kingdom_miners%27_strike" title="1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike">Miners' strike (1984–85)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1985 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1985)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Agreement" title="Anglo-Irish Agreement">Anglo-Irish Agreement</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1985" title="Local Government Act 1985">Local Government Act (1985)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rate-capping_rebellion" title="Rate-capping rebellion">rate-capping rebellion</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westland_affair" title="Westland affair">Westland affair</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1986 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1986)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1987 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1987)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal"><a href="/wiki/Third_Thatcher_ministry" title="Third Thatcher ministry">3rd ministry<br />(1987–1990)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1988_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1988 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1988)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988%E2%80%931994_British_broadcasting_voice_restrictions" title="1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions">Broadcasting restrictions (1988)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mound" title="Sermon on the Mound">"Sermon on the Mound" (1988)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruges_speech" title="Bruges speech">Bruges speech</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1989 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1989)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poll_tax_(Great_Britain)" title="Poll tax (Great Britain)">Community Charge (1989–90)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poll_tax_riots" title="Poll tax riots">Poll tax riots</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1990 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1990)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/No._No._No._(Margaret_Thatcher)" title="No. No. No. (Margaret Thatcher)">"No. No. No." (1990)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Prime_Minister%27s_Resignation_Honours" title="1990 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours">Resignation Honours (1990)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Margaret_Thatcher#Conservative_Party_leadership_elections" title="Electoral history of Margaret Thatcher">Party elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1975_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1975 Conservative Party leadership election">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1989 Conservative Party leadership election">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1990 Conservative Party leadership election">1990</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Margaret_Thatcher#United_Kingdom_general_elections" title="Electoral history of Margaret Thatcher">General elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Bibliography of Margaret Thatcher">Books</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Downing Street Years</a></i> (1993 autobiography)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Path_to_Power_(Thatcher_book)" title="The Path to Power (Thatcher book)">The Path to Power</a></i> (1995 memoir)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Statecraft:_Strategies_for_a_Changing_World" title="Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World">Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World</a></i> (2003)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Denis_Thatcher" title="Denis Thatcher">Denis Thatcher</a> (husband) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thatcher_baronets" title="Thatcher baronets">baronetcy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Thatcher" title="Mark Thatcher">Mark Thatcher</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_Thatcher" title="Carol Thatcher">Carol Thatcher</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Roberts" title="Alfred Roberts">Alfred Roberts</a> (father)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/We_have_become_a_grandmother" title="We have become a grandmother">We have become a grandmother</a>" (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Cultural depictions of Margaret Thatcher">Cultural depictions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Film and<br />television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anyone_for_Denis%3F_(video)" title="Anyone for Denis? (video)">Anyone for Denis?</a></i> (1982 TV play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Spitting_Image" title="Spitting Image">Spitting Image</a></i> (1984–1996 & 2020 TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Statesman_(1987_TV_series)" title="The New Statesman (1987 TV series)">The New Statesman</a></i> (1987–1991 TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thatcher:_The_Final_Days" title="Thatcher: The Final Days">Thatcher: The Final Days</a></i> (1991 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Falklands_Play" title="The Falklands Play">The Falklands Play</a></i> (2002 play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Archer:_The_Truth" title="Jeffrey Archer: The Truth">Jeffrey Archer: The Truth</a></i> (2002 TV film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Alan_Clark_Diaries" title="The Alan Clark Diaries">The Alan Clark Diaries</a></i> (2004 TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pinochet_in_Suburbia" title="Pinochet in Suburbia">Pinochet in Suburbia</a></i> (2006 docudrama)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Walk_to_Finchley" title="The Long Walk to Finchley">The Long Walk to Finchley</a></i> (2008 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Margaret_(2009_film)" title="Margaret (2009 film)">Margaret</a></i> (2009 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Queen_(British_TV_serial)" title="The Queen (British TV serial)">The Queen</a></i> (2009 TV serial)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Iron_Lady_(film)" title="The Iron Lady (film)">The Iron Lady</a></i> (2011 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Tony_Blair" title="The Hunt for Tony Blair">The Hunt for Tony Blair</a></i> (2011 episode)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Search_of_La_Che" title="In Search of La Che">In Search of La Che</a></i> (2011 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Crown_season_4" title="The Crown season 4">The Crown</a></i> (2020 TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reagan_(2024_film)" title="Reagan (2024 film)">Reagan</a></i> (2024 film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Handbagged" title="Handbagged">Handbagged</a></i> (2010, 2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Audience_(2013_play)" title="The Audience (2013 play)">The Audience</a></i> (2013)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Statues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Margaret_Thatcher_(London_Guildhall)" title="Statue of Margaret Thatcher (London Guildhall)">London Guildhall (1998)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Margaret_Thatcher_(Palace_of_Westminster)" title="Statue of Margaret Thatcher (Palace of Westminster)">Palace of Westminster (2007)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Margaret_Thatcher_(Grantham)" title="Statue of Margaret Thatcher (Grantham)">Grantham (2022)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Paintings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portrait_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Portrait of Margaret Thatcher">Richard Stone portrait</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blatcherism" title="Blatcherism">Blatcherism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_funeral_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher">Death and funeral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_honours_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="List of honours of Margaret Thatcher">Honours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thatchergate" 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