Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality (114 page)
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Authors: Jonathan Aitken
National Health Service (NHS)
378–80
,
402
,
523
,
535–6
privatisation
117–18
,
380–2
,
403–4
,
501
public expenditure, controlling/reducing
265–6
,
301
,
378–9
,
388
,
402
‘Right to Buy’ policy
144
,
250–1
,
382
trade unions
see
trade unions
see also
economic issues
as Prime Minister
cabinet
see
cabinet
civil service
see
civil service
economy
see
economic issues
Exchange Rate Mechanism clashes
540–2
,
550–2
first actions
248
first term (1979–83)
see
first term in office (1979–83)
foreign affairs
see
foreign policy
leadership style
252–5
,
259
,
265
,
370
,
502
see also
man-management shortcomings of MT
No. 10, inside
261–6
prediction of becoming
114
,
118–19
,
120
,
243
second term (1983–87)
see
second term in office (1983–87)
third term (1987–90)
see
third term of office (1987–1990)
in retirement
Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, becoming
665
,
668
final months as Member of House of Commons
660–3
health problems
684–8
Kuwaiti export order car crisis
672–5
Major, attacks on
663–8
period following downfall
7
,
653–67
seventieth birthday
678–9
strategic ideas and personal conversations
668–72
travel and speech-making
656–9
vacation activities
675–8
speeches
77
,
82
,
116
,
196
,
199
,
329
,
413
,
515
,
555
,
640
conference
213–14
first at Grantham (1945)
48–9
as Leader of the Opposition (1975–79)
50
Lord Mayor’s Banquet, sporting analogy (November 1990)
617
,
619
maiden, in House of Commons
88
,
91–2
,
94
Queen’s Speech
250–1
,
395
,
397
,
531
in retirement
656–9
Soviet Union (USSR)
201–3
Westland crisis (1986)
515
writing
659–60
memoirs
16
,
24–5
,
50
,
84
,
352
,
426
,
655
,
659
Thatcher, (Sir) Denis (1st Baronet)
58
,
74
,
81
,
106–7
,
196
,
321
,
341
,
386
,
432–3
,
438
,
529
,
545
,
633
,
639
,
670
,
684
death from pancreatic cancer (2003)
681–2
first impressions of MT
60–1
first marriage to Margot Kempson, break-up
68–9
affected by MT’s career
104–5
proposal and engagement
68–70
wedding and honeymoon
71–2
Northern Ireland and Brighton bomb
408–11
,
414
Thatcher, (Sir) Mark (2nd Baronet)
105
,
186
,
684
alleged plot to organise coup in Equatorial New Guinea
688
on MT’s lack of maternal tactility
17
,
190
The Times
93
,
136
,
172
,
182
,
199
,
276–7
,
313
,
509
‘thermonuclear lunch’ (1979)
321–2
,
341
third term of office (1987–90)
attempts to stabilise government
582–4
Berlin Wall, collapse (1989)
591
,
593
Budget of 1988 as ‘boom or bust’
546–50
communism, collapse in Eastern Europe
591–2
Community Charge (Poll Tax)
602–4
Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) (1990),
627–31
,
634
‘elective dictatorship,’ MT’s leadership style as
370
Exchange Rate Mechanism, decision to join
604–8
Kuwait invasion (1990), MT’s contribution to Western reaction
598–601
problems
glitches
531–2
inability to listen
614–15
,
623
,
650
unpopularity of MT by 1990
602–3
Whitelaw’s resignation (1988), implications
532–6
see also
Community Charge (Poll Tax); Howe, Sir Geoffrey; Lawson, Nigel; man-management shortcomings of MT; Thatcher, Margaret Hilda (Baroness); Walters, Sir Alan
Thomas, Hugh (
later
Baron Thomas of Swynnerton)
205
,
270–1
,
353
,
355
,
475
,
489
,
593
Thorneycroft, Peter (Baron)
50
,
83
,
204
,
315–16
,
318
and election campaign of 1979
233–5
three-day week (1974)
138–9
,
303
Tornado nuclear issue, Saudi Arabia
432–4
British Steel Corporation, industrial action at
305
,
377–8
‘charge of the Light Brigade approach’
440–1
confrontational strategy towards
204
first term in office of MT (1979–83)
377–9
and David Hart
448–52
miners’ strike (1984–85)
439
,
443
,
445
,
447
,
483
MT’s views on
89–90
,
203
,
219
,
221
,
228
,
251
,
377–8
,
439–59
National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS), crisis involving
452–4
picketing, secondary
221
,
233
,
304–5
,
441
printing unions, dispute with
90–1
problem solving
439–42
second term in office of MT (1983–87)
439–59
‘softly softly’ approach (mid-1970s)
219
,
233
,
303
,
305
,
440
,
446
Stepping Stones
(1977)
204
,
304
,
440–2
see also
Scargill, Arthur; ‘winter of discontent’ (1978–79)
Trades Union Congress (TUC)
215
,
385
,
560
Treasury/Treasury Committee
4
,
542
,
604
Trevor-Roper, Hugh (
later
Baron Dacre of Glanton)
145
,
205–6
Trident (C4) nuclear weapons system
297
,
344
,
486
,
491–2
Trident II (D5)
383
Turnbull, Andrew (
later
Baron Turnbull of Enfield)
446–7
,
640
dispute with David Hart
449–50
unemployment,
300
,
309–10
,
312–13
,
318
,
376–7
,
398
‘Labour isn’t working’ (advertising campaign)
215–16
public perception of
376–7
United Kingdom (UK)
Falklands War
see
Falklands War (1982)
as ‘sick man of Europe’
209
,
300
special relationship with United States
31
,
119–20
,
197
,
201
,
283
,
296–8
United States of America (US)
Air Force (9th)
31
Anglo-American alliance
119
,
201
,
296
,
555
bridge building between Moscow and Washington
485–8
Grenada invasion (1983)
465–8
Libya bombing (1986)
470–3
nuclear weapons modernisation
383
special relationship with United Kingdom
31
,
119–20
,
197
,
201
,
283
,
296–8
see also
Kissinger, Henry; Reagan, Ronald
United Technologies (UTC)–Fiat investment in Westland
507–9
,
511–12
vacation activities
16
,
280–1
,
374
,
438
,
675–8
in retirement
675–8
Tusmore
438
Value Added Tax (VAT)
251–2
,
403
Wade-Gery, Robert
417
Wakeham, John (
later
Baron Wakeham of Maldon)
413
,
513
,
515
,
521
,
525
,
530
,
540
,
627
,
638–9
and leadership contest of 1990
633
,
636
Waldegrave, William (
later
Baron Waldegrave of North Hill)
328
,
400
,
503–4
,
613
,
636–7
Walker, Peter (
later
Baron Walker of Worcester)
110
,
138
,
144–5
,
179
,
249–50
,
305
,
314
,
378
,
443
,
452
and leadership contest of 1975
164
,
166
Walters, (Sir) Alan
271
,
316
,
541
and Budget of 1981
309–11
special relationship with MT
549
,
584–7
war cabinet (ODSA), Falklands War
344–5
,
355
,
369–70
Watergate scandal (1972)
240
,
474
,
655
Weatherill, Bernard ‘Jack’ (
later
Baron Weatherill)
6
,
225
,
392–4
