1979-90: Prime Minister Commentary
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| Date | Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 79 May 4 Fr |  |
Key | Commentary (Ronnie Millar memoirs) | General Election: “A View From The Wings” (how MT was persuaded to use St Francis’s prayer on the steps of Downing Street) |
| 80 Mar 3 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism: a reply to the critics" (Friedman article) |
| 80 Mar 5 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism and hyper-inflation" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Mar 18 Tu | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Free market" (Hayek letter defending Friedman) |
| 80 Mar 26 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "How to deal with inflation" (Hayek article) |
| 80 Mar 29 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Professor urges Chancellor to balance Budget now" (Hayek at IEA lunch) [wants "referendum to rescind every single [union] privilege"] |
| 80 May 7 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Steel: "Threatened revolt over steel chief collapses" (meeting between Joseph and Conservative backbench committee regarding Ian MacGregor appointment) |
| 80 May 31 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Jun 6 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “New moves over the Falklands” (Argentine Economy Minister meets MT & other British ministers) |
| 80 Jun 13 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "A testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Nov 12 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "The Hayek cure: bigger and better bankruptcies" (Hayek interview) ["my hopes of Britain saving herself have shrunk a little"] |
| 80 Nov 18 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Minister’s visit to consult Falklands people” (Nick Ridley & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 24 Mo | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Argentine anger over Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 26 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Transfer of Falklands sovereignty proposed” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 27 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Lord Carrington says Britain will honour wishes of Falklanders” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 28 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Britain puts forward four options on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 28 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “An Option For The Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [Third Leading Article] |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | |
Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservativsm: “Lord Vaizey’s change of party” (announces conversion from Labour to Conservative) |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Abuse of union power 'main cause of jobless'" (Hayek paper for IEA) [unions "cannot understand they are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs"] |
| 80 Dec 3 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Commons is united by suspicion of Ridley intentions on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [minister badly mauled in Commons] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Communists heckle Mrs Thatcher in church" (St Lawrence Jewry speech) [MT: "you see why I fight these people"] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Economists criticize Government" (Hayek & Friedman on BBC Panorama ) [blaming wets] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Economy: The 1981 budget [memoirs extract] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: Editorial: “The Chancellor’s Conundrum” ("appears to go on digging the hole still deeper") |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Advice and consent" (Hayek letter) [does not act as an adviser "on particular decisions"] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Hayek letter on the 364 economists) ["lost generation of British economists ... panicky mob"] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Harris letter on the 364 economists) ["charge sheet of those responsible for ... economic decline"] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | |
Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Three Cabinet ministers sacked" (reshuffle) [purging the wets] |
| 81 Oct 13 Tu | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "'Blue Chips' to aid party in Croydon" (all 14 to visit) [demonstration of loyalty] |
| 81 Nov 28 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | SDP: "Heath hints he might join a Tory-SDP coalition" ("There might be invitations ... which might be acceptable") |
| 81 Dec 7 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | SDP-Liberal Alliance: "Steel tells of talks with troubled senior Tories" (dissident Conservatives including junior ministers) [plus Gilmour attack] |
| 81 Dec 8 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "A Tory warning from the last ditch" (Chris Patten article) [give cabinet the benefit of the doubt "one last time ... some signs of change"] |
| 81 Dec 8 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Tory 'wets' set for rebellion on economy" (Gilmour Group) [around a dozen likely to abstain on Autumn Statement] |
| 81 Dec 10 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The Kamikaze Tory Rebels" (Ronald Butt article) [firing arrows into backs of their own side] |
| 81 Dec 12 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Why Howe should heed that lorry rumble" (Geoffrey Smith article) [threat to Howe's survival] |
| 82 Mar 11 Th | |
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: "Carlton Club celebrates with Thatcher as star" (MT unveils a portrait of herself at the Carlton Club) [released 2013] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: Argentina invades the Falklands [memoirs extract] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: A crisis in the War Cabinet and the recapture of South Georgia [memoirs extract] |
| 82 May 2 Su | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: Decision to sink the Belgrano [memoirs extract] |
| 82 May 31 Mo | |
Key | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Falklands: Reagan phone call to Thatcher (urges ceasefire) |
| 82 Dec 16 Th | |
Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: The “Special Relationship” (Shultz memoirs) |
| 83 Mar 23 We | |
Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Reagan’s Star Wars initiative (Shultz memoirs) |
| 83 Sep 8 Th | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Chequers Seminar on future of the Soviet Union [memoirs extract] |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting in Washington (record of conversation) [memoirs extract] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Grenada: Thatcher letter to Reagan ("deeply disturbed" at US plans) [memoirs extract] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | |
Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: US disappointment at MT’s line over Grenada (Shultz memoirs) |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Northern Ireland: The Brighton Bomb [memoirs extract] |
| 84 Nov 3 Sa | |
Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Meeting MT at Mrs Gandhi’s funeral (Shultz memoirs) |
| 84 Dec 16 Su | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: The Gorbachevs visit Chequers [memoirs extract] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | |
Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: MT’s visit to Camp David (Shultz memoirs) |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (account of conversation) [memoirs extract] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | South Africa: “Thatcher refuses to budge over sanctions” [arguments at Nassau CHOGM] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | South Africa: Summit accord on apartheid hailed as key step [outcome of Nassau CHOGM] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | |
Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | |
Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: US bombing of Libya (Shultz memoirs) |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | |
Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 86 Nov 16 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher wins Reagan pledge to sell Trident" (Camp David meeting) |
| 86 Nov 17 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher talks fail to bridge chasm" & "Reagan tells Thatcher Soviet-US deal would not affect UK deterrent" (Camp David meeting) |
| 87 Dec 10 Th | |
Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 88 Jun 1 We | |
Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 89 Jan 19 Th | |
Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Understanding Ronald Reagan (Shultz memoirs) |
| 89 Nov 25 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: "Cold war 'will last until 2000'" (MT-Bush meeting at Camp David) |
| 89 Nov 26 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher stands firm on boat people" (MT & Bush reported clash at Camp David) |
| 89 Dec 6 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Leadership election: "Victory with just a dent" (MT defeats Meyer) |
| 89 Dec 6 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Leadership election: "Clear-cut win as 314 vote for Thatcher" (MT defeats Meyer) |
| 89 Dec 6 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: "Bush moves swiftly to deny 'snub' over EC" (Bush calls MT) |
| 90 Aug 2 Th | |
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: Visiting Aspen [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Aug 3 Fr | |
Minor | Commentary (Boulder Daily Camera) | US: "Durgin recalls Margaret Thatcher's visit to Boulder" [2012 account of a 90 minute stop at National Center for Atmospheric Research] |
| 90 Aug 3 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Gulf War: "Thatcher urges UN to act tough" (MT in Aspen) |
| 90 Aug 5 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Gulf War: "Rape of the Gulf" ( Insight account of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) |
| 90 Aug 6 Mo | |
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: Bush-Thatcher meeting in Washington [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Aug 26 Su | |
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: Bush-Thatcher phone conversation (no time to go wobbly) [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Sep 30 Su | |
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: MT-Bush meeting in New York [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 9 Fr | |
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: MT meeting with Jim Baker (reinforcing British deployment) [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 20 Tu | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falling from power: Hearing the result of the first ballot [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 22 Th | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falling from power: Cabinet overboard [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 23 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falling from power: "America astonished by fall of loyal ally" (reaction from Reagan & Bush) |
| 80 Feb 12 Tu |  |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The balance between individual and state" (Gilmour's Cambridge Lecture) [Hayek's annotated copy] |
| 80 Feb 22 Fr | |
Major | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Eric Heffer speech ("Tory leaders are no hypocrites, Mr Heffer says") [clash between "wets" and "dries"] |
| 80 Feb 26 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: Leading Article "The Road to Hyper-Inflation is paved with good intentions" (Hayek's annotated copy) ["shoot-out at the Downing Street corral"] |
| 80 Jul 15 Tu | |
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Defence Open Government Document 80/23 ("The Future UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Force") [acquiring Trident] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Sun) | Budget: "'Cabinet Men Warn on Budget" (7 rebel ministers) [Whitelaw, Carrington, Pym, Prior, Walker, Gilmour & Soames] |
| 81 Oct 7 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Heath blast at Thatcher's 'dreary path'" (Manchester speech) [MT rebuts] |
| 81 Oct 7 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Pathfinder for a Young Pretender" (leader on Heath's Manchester speech) [his views discounted] |
| 81 Oct 8 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Invitation that did not come" (Heath letter correcting leader) [never invited to join MT's team] |
| 81 Oct 9 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The Troubled Ranks of Tuscany" (leader on Changing Gear ) [party in "the early stages of demoralisation"] |
| 81 Oct 10 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Mrs Thatcher can't expect blind loyalty" (Chris Patten article) ["truth ... lies somewhere in the middle"] |
| 81 Oct 15 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Impassioned plea by Heath gets short shrift from Tories" (attacks government at party conference) |
| 81 Oct 15 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Chancellor launches onslaught on 'union irresponsibility'" (Howe clashes with Heath) |
| 81 Oct 16 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Thatcher faces growing rift in Cabinet" (Tebbit speech - father "didn't riot. He got on his bike, & looked for work") |
| 81 Oct 16 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Monetarists warn wets: stop playing with fire" (Lawson & Walters speeches) |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment] |
| 81 Dec 3 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Heath scorns the 'pretence' of monetarism" (speech) [no intellectual basis] |
| 81 Dec 9 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Howe attacked from all sides" (debate on Autumn Statement) [14 Conservative abstentions] |
| 82 Sep 26 Su | |
Major | Commentary Sunday Times | East Asia: "A new Mrs Thatcher rises in the East" [Hugo Young article] |
| 82 Sep 26 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (The Observer) | China: Clive James articles ("Mrs T. in China") [account of MT's visits to China & Hong Kong] |
| 88 Sep 21 We | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe: “Thatcher signals fight to stop EEC superstate” (Bruges speech) |
| 88 Sep 21 We | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe: “Riding roughshod over Continental hypocrisy” (Bruce Anderson on Bruges speech) |
| 88 Sep 22 Th | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe: “Untimely offensive” (leading article on Bruges speech) |
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