Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (145 page)

1
.
Edward Heath,
The Course of my Life
, Hodder & Stoughton, 1998, p. 327.
2
.
Douglas Hurd,
An End to Promises
, Collins, 1979, p. 95.
3
.
Heath,
The Course of my Life
, p. 348.
4
.
Ibid.
5
.
Papers relating to the compilation of Lady Thatcher’s memoirs, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 4/4.
6
.
Margaret Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 221.
7
.
Interview with Lord Parkinson.
8
.
THCR 4/4.
9
.
Interview with Sir Edward Heath.
10
.
For example, interviews with Lord Walker and Lord Prior.
11
.
059 State 1970–73 Central File, US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
12
.
Interview with Lord Butler of Brockwell.
13
.
All above quotations from the Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks.
14
.
Interview with Lord Parkinson.
15
.
THCR 4/4.
16
.
Interview with Lord Butler of Brockwell.
17
.
All above quotations are from the Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks. Sir John Hunt succeeded Sir Burke Trend in September 1973. The abbreviations of reported speech are his.
18
.
THCR 4/4.
19
.
See Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 195.
20
.
THCR 4/4.
21
.
Heath,
The Course of my Life
, p. 334.
22
.
Private information.
23
.
Speech to Finchley Conservatives (Association AGM), 2 Mar. 1972, reported in
Finchley Times
, 10 Mar. 1972 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102186
).
24
.
Speech to Devon Conservatives, 29 July 1972, reported in
Exeter Express and Echo
, 31 July 1972 (Christopher Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher 1945–90 on CD-ROM
, Oxford University Press, 1998/2000).
25
.
THCR 4/4.
26
.
Ibid.
27
.
Ibid.
28
.
Airey Neave, diary (unpublished).
29
.
Ibid.
30
.
Letter from Carol Thatcher to Muriel Cullen, 30 Aug. 1973.
31
.
Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 228.
32
.
For a discussion of this incident, see John Campbell,
Edward Heath
:
A Biography
, Jonathan Cape, 1993, pp. 566–7.
33
.
Interview with Lord Waldegrave of North Hill.
34
.
THCR 4/4.
35
.
Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 17 Jan. 1974.
36
.
Neave, diary, 17 Jan. 1974.
37
.
Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 5 Feb. 1974.
38
.
Ibid.
39
.
Interview with Lord Waldegrave of North Hill.
40
.
Interview with Lord Donoughue.
41
.
THCR 4/4.
42
.
Finchley Times
, 15 Feb. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102337
).
43
.
Election Call
(BBC Radio 4), 19 Feb. 1974 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
44
.
Daily Express
, 22 Feb. 1974.
45
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
46
.
For a full account of all the negotiations of 1–4 Mar., see Robert Armstrong, Note for the Record, 16 March 1974, The National Archives (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) PREM 15/2069.
47
.
Ibid.
48
.
Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 1 Mar. 1974.
49
.
Robert Armstrong, Note for the Record, TNA: PRO PREM 15/2069.
50
.
Interview with Lady Wakeham.
51
.
Daily Mail
, 9 Mar. 1974 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
52
.
THCR 4/4.
53
.
Neave, diary, 5 Mar. 1974.
54
.
Ibid., 7 Mar. 1974.
55
.
Interview with Sir Charles Morrison.
56
.
Bernard Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
, 2 vols, Jonathan Cape, 2005, 2008, vol. i:
With Harold Wilson in No
.
10
, 15 Mar. 1974, p. 71.
57
.
Ibid., 13 Mar. 1974.
58
.
Private information.
59
.
Neave, diary, 14 Mar. 1974.
60
.
Ibid., 18 Mar. 1974.
61
.
Ibid., 19 Mar. 1974.
62
.
Hansard, HC Deb 6 May 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102360
).
63
.
Neave, diary, 25 Mar. 1974.
64
.
Ibid., 24 Apr. 1974.
65
.
THCR 4/4.
66
.
Private information.
67
.
Neave, diary, 9 May 1974.
68
.
Ibid., 13 June 1974.
69
.
Ibid., 17 June 1974.
70
.
Ibid., 27 June 1974.
71
.
Ibid., 2 July 1974.
72
.
Ibid., 8 July 1974.
73
.
Ibid., 14 July 1974.
74
.
Interview with Sir Edward Heath.
75
.
Interview with Sara Morrison.
76
.
Interview with Sir Alfred Sherman.
77
.
Ibid.
78
.
Interview with Simon Webley.
79
.
Ibid.
80
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
81
.
Interview with Lord Carrington.
82
.
For a full account see Alfred Sherman,
Paradoxes of Power
, Imprint Academic, 2005.
83
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
84
.
The
Times
, 2, 3 and 4 May 1974.
85
.
THCR 4/4.
86
.
Interview with Lord Walker.
87
.
Radio interview for
Feedback
(LBC), 17 May 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102366
).
88
.
Liverpool Daily Post
, 17 June 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102369
).
89
.
Interview with Lady Wakeham.
90
.
Interview with Lord Patten of Barnes.
91
.
Daily Telegraph
, 1 July 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102377
).
92
.
Hansard, HC Deb 29 Apr. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102358
).
93
.
Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 246.
94
.
THCR 4/4.
95
.
Interview with Sir John Stanley.
96
.
THCR 4/4.
97
.
Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 247.
98
.
Hansard, HC Deb 27 June 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102375
).
99
.
Neave, diary, 27 June 1974.
100
.
Ibid., 14 Aug. 1974.
101
.
ITN interview, 28 Aug. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102390
).
102
.
Neave, diary, 28 Aug. 1974.
103
.
Daily Mail
, 18 Sept. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102397
).
104
.
News of the World
, 22 Sept. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102398
).
105
.
Weekend World
(LWT), 29 Sept. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101829
).
106
.
Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
, vol. i, 30 Sept. 1974, p. 204.
107
.
Ibid., 29 Sept. 1974.
108
.
Speech at adoption meeting, 23 Sept. 1974, reported in
Finchley Press
, 27 Sept. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102399
).
109
.
THCR 4/4.
110
.
Any Questions?
(BBC Radio 4), Southampton, 4 Oct. 1974 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
111
.
THCR 4/4.

1
.
Airey Neave, diary (unpublished), 7 Aug. 1974.
2
.
Ibid., 12 Oct. 1974.
3
.
See John Campbell,
Edward Heath: A Biography
, Jonathan Cape, 1993, pp. 654–6.
4
.
Conversation with Lord Carrington.
5
.
Neave, diary, 14 Oct. 1974.
6
.
All above quotations from Neave, diary, 15 Oct. 1974.
7
.
Ibid., 22 Oct. 1974.
8
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Ibid., 31 Oct. 1974.
9
.
Private information.
10
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Neave, diary, 13 Oct. 1974.
11
.
Ibid., 13 Nov. 1974.
12
.
Papers relating to the compilation of Lady Thatcher’s memoirs, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 4/4.
13
.
Interview with John Clare.
14
.
Sunday Express
, 20 Oct. 1974 (Christopher Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher 1945–90 on CD-ROM
, Oxford University Press, 1998/2000).
15
.
Fred Silvester to Margaret Thatcher, 15 Oct. 1974; Margaret Thatcher to Fred Silvester, undated. Letters in the possession of Mr Silvester.
16
.
Interview with Sir Alfred Sherman.
17
.
THCR 4/4.
18
.
Neave, diary, 21 Oct. 1974.
19
.
Bernard Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
, 2 vols, Jonathan Cape, 2005, 2008, vol. i:
With Harold Wilson in No
.
10
, 24 Oct. 1974, p. 230.
20
.
Evening Standard
, 24 Oct. 1974 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
21
.
Interview with Lord Parkinson.
22
.
Neave, diary, 26 Oct. 1974.
23
.
Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
, vol. i, 29 Oct. 1974, p. 234.
24
.
Hansard, HC Deb 14 Nov. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102436
).
25
.
Neave, diary, 14 Nov. 1974.
26
.
Interview with Sir Fergus Montgomery.
27
.
Margaret Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 266.
28
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
29
.
THCR 4/4.
30
.
Private information.
31
.
Private information.
32
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
33
.
This, and ensuing quotations from Sir Gordon Reece, are from the author’s interview with him, and from an unpublished memoir that Sir Gordon wrote shortly before his death in 2001 (in the possession of his family).
34
.
Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 266.
35
.
Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher.
36
.
The Economist
, 30 Nov. 1974.
37
.
Interview with Lord Patten of Barnes.
38
.
Neave, diary, 28 Nov. 1974.
39
.
Unpublished interview with Sir Peter Morrison (interviewer unknown), 1993. (Manuscript in the possession of Dame Mary Morrison.)
40
.
Neave, diary, 21 Nov. 1974.
41
.
Ibid., 22 Nov. 1974.
42
.
Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 267.
43
.
Interview with Paul Johnson.
44
.
Edward Heath,
The Course of my Life
, Hodder & Stoughton, 1998, p. 530.
45
.
Neave, diary, 24 Nov. 1974.
46
.
Ibid., 26 Nov. 1974.
47
.
Ibid., 27 Nov. 1974.
48
.
Interview with Lord Waldegrave of North Hill.
49
.
Private information.
50
.
Neave, diary, 28 Nov. 1974.
51
.
THCR 4/4.
52
.
Ibid.
53
.
BBC Radio interview, 28 Nov. 1974 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
54
.
Daily Express
, 29 Nov. 1974 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
55
.
Neave, diary, 1 Dec. 1974.
56
.
Hansard, HC Deb 17 Dec. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102448
).
57
.
Neave, diary, 6 Dec. 1974.
58
.
Ibid., 12 Dec. 1974.
59
.
Ibid., 19 Dec. 1974.
60
.
Ibid., 25 Dec. 1974.
61
.
Interview with Sir Edward Du Cann.
62
.
Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 271.
63
.
Neave, diary, 9 Jan. 1975.
64
.
Ibid., 12 Jan. 1975.
65
.
Ibid., 14 Jan. 1975.
66
.
Ibid., 15 Jan. 1975.
67
.
Ibid.
68
.
Ibid., 16 Jan. 1975.
69
.
Lady Antonia Fraser, diary (unpublished), 10 Jan. 1975.
70
.
Neave, diary, 19 Jan. 1975.
71
.
Ibid., 20 Jan. 1975.
72
.
Interview with Lord Weatherill.
73
.
Interview with Sir Edward Du Cann.
74
.
Interview with Jonathan Aitken.
75
.
Interview with Sir Fergus Montgomery.
76
.
Reece, memoir.
77
.
Interview with Sara Morrison.
78
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
79
.
Interview with Lord Prior.
80
.
Hansard, HC Deb 17 Dec. 1974 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102448
).
81
.
Hansard, HC Deb 15 Jan. 1975 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102588
).
82
.
Hansard, HC Deb 22 Jan. 1975 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102591
).
83
.
Neave, diary, opening note for 1973.
84
.
Ibid., 21 Sept. 1972.
85
.
Interview with Marigold Webb (née Neave).
86
.
Neave, diary, 6 July 1972.
87
.
Interview with Sir Tim Kitson.
88
.
Interview with Joan Hall.
89
.
Interview with Lord Weatherill.
90
.
Private information.
91
.
Interview with Lord Weatherill.
92
.
Interview with Sir Tim Kitson.
93
.
Ibid.
94
.
Interview with Lord Baker of Dorking.
95
.
Interview with Sara Morrison.
96
.
Reece, memoir.
97
.
Ibid.
98
.
First Report
(ITN), 28 Jan. 1975 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102597
).
99
.
Fraser, diary, 30 Jan. 1975.
100
.
Daily Telegraph
, 30 Jan. 1975 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102600
).
101
.
Speech in Finchley, 31 Jan. 1975 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102605
).
102
.
Neave, diary, 21 Jan. 1975.
103
.
Ibid., 23 Jan. 1975.
104
.
Ibid., 26 Jan. 1975.
105
.
Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
, 24 Jan. 1975, p. 294.
106
.
Interview with Lord Ryder of Wensum.
107
.
Interview with Sir Tim Kitson.
108
.
Private information.
109
.
Interview with Joan Hall.
110
.
Interview with Lord Lamont.
111
.
Ibid.
112
.
See John Campbell,
Margaret Thatcher
, 2 vols, Jonathan Cape, 2000, 2003
,
vol. i:
The Grocer’s Daughter
, p. 301.
113
.
Interview with Lord Waldegrave of North Hill.
114
.
News at Ten
(ITN), 4 Feb. 1975 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102607
).
115
.
Interview with Joan Hall.
116
.
Interview with Lord Baker of Dorking.
117
.
THCR 4/4.
118
.
THCR 4/4.
119
.
Guardian
, 8 Feb. 1975.
120
.
Ibid.
121
.
Interview with Lord Prior.
122
.
Interview with Sir Gordon Reece.
123
.
Speech at Young Conservative Conference, 8 Feb. 1975, reported in
Observer
, 9 Feb. 1975 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
124
.
Ibid.
125
.
Sunday Express
, 9 Feb. 1975 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102614
).
126
.
THCR 4/4.