Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

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In her mid-twenties she ran as the Conservative candidate for the strong Labour seat of Dartford at the General Elections of 1950 and 1951, winning national publicity as the youngest woman candidate in the country. He wanted Britain to be strongly defended, but to exist in Lord Salisbury-style ‘splendid isolation,’ not getting involved in other peoples’ fights. Drawing on an extraordinary cache of letters to her sister Muriel, Moore illuminates Thatcher’s youth, her relationship with her parents, and her early romantic attachments, including her first encounters with Denis Thatcher and their courtship and marriage. When he drafted her memoirs for her it was a completely synthesised process because they more or less became each other.

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He sat on my wife’s knee for most of the first course and then I took him for a while, so she could eat. Overall, this is a book well worth reading for those who have a interest in political biography or wish to understand Thatcher better. She lost both times, but cut the Labour majority sharply and hugely enjoyed the experience of campaigning. Margaret Thatcher's home and early life in Grantham played a large part in forming her political convictions. The other day my wife went round to Vera, whom she hadn’t seen for ages, just to see how she was and she’s got this silver frame with her and Edna and Mrs T in a place of honour on her sideboard.In international terms, her effect on bringing down the Berlin Wall and her relationship with Gorbachev were very important. Although she worked with the US administration in pursuing the possibility of a diplomatic solution, a British military Task Force was despatched to retake the islands. Margaret Thatcher accumulated huge prestige over the course of the 1980s and often compelled the respect even of her bitterest critics. He has given a true and faithful account of her character, her personality, her views, her dynamism and her absolute refusal to be kicked around by anybody. Neuroscientist Usha Goswami, chair of the 2023 judging panel, explains why it is important to get children excited about science via books, and introduces us to the fabulous titles that made this year’s shortlist.

Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography – HarperCollins

I was 25, the US Air Force had just bombed Libya, and Mrs T had—somewhat controversially as it turned out—given permission for the US planes to take off from bases in the UK. Margaret won a scholarship to the local Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School, where she became head-girl.On another occasion, in 1994, my wife and I were invited to the opening of the new stand at Towcester Racecourse by Lord Hesketh.

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The book is (mostly) balanced and objective, and Moore takes care to focus on her failings as well as her triumphs. She became the first woman ever to lead a Western political party and to serve as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons. But Hayek’s fundamental idea about the importance of the individual, of the free market economy, of allowing people to do as they wish without the state intervening, was absolutely fundamental Thatcherism and, of course, remains fundamental to the libertarian ideas that are held by the heirs of Mrs Thatcher today.There's no doubt that the Falklands marked a turning point in her political fortunes-Her enemies within the Government were vanquished, and she did show great leadership. The government began to pursue a policy of selling state assets, which in total had amounted to more than 20 per cent of the economy when the Conservatives came to power in 1979. Partly as a result of that, he has this very tight identification in his argument between personal freedom and economic freedom and you can totally see why that was very persuasive throughout most of the 20th century.