Charles Moore: Margaret Thatcher and the EU

ieaTV caught up with Margaret Thatcher’s authorised biographer Charles Moore to discuss the former Prime Minister’s changing attitude towards the European Union. In this video, Moore describes how Margaret Thatcher was initially in favour of the European Community as a block against the Soviet Union and for the furtherance of free trade, but yet was sceptical of the overall project. She became more disillusioned following the Single European Act and the steps taken towards monetary union.

Margaret Thatcher - Death of a Revolutionary - CH4

A documentary about the late former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which could be criticised for being an uncritical hommage rather than a balanced view of her premiership. Most of the negative impacts caused by the fundamental changes she brought to Britain have been "elegantly" omitted, but her motives, her basic believes, her encouraging message and everything positive she stood for are beautifully summarised and one understands why despite her errors and some misjudgement she could be praised as a great and visionary politician who not only changed Britain for the better (on balance) but had an influence on the world like few other politicians can claim.

A Channel 4 documentary by Martin Durkin with contributions by Kenneth Baker, Cecil Parkinson, Neil Kinnock, Kelvin MacKenzie, Norman Tebbit, Bernard Ingham, Charles Powell, Nigel Lawson and David Cameron.

Margaret Thatcher Would Not Have Supported Brexit, Says Top Aide

THE GUARDIAN: Lord Powell says Eurosceptic former prime minister would always have preferred to battle the EU from within, whatever the scale of her frustrations

Margaret Thatcher would never have supported Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. or the holding of an in/out referendum, her longest-serving and most trusted former foreign policy adviser has told the Observer.

Lord Powell of Bayswater, who was at Thatcher’s side during her most epic confrontations with Brussels during the 1980s, said the Eurosceptic former prime minister would always have preferred to battle the EU from within, whatever the scale of her frustrations, rather than opening the door to exit.

“Of course she got fed up with it, but I don’t believe that as prime minister she would ever have campaigned to take Britain out of Europe or had a referendum to allow that to happen,” he said. “She wanted to change Europe and she set out to change it with great vigour, but I don’t believe she would have chosen this way and she would have avoided getting trapped by the referendum promise.

“She never had any truck with referendums and frequently spoke out against them.” » | Toby Helm | Saturday, September 3, 2016

Thatcher - Melanie Phillips

Niall Ferguson: Europe Is a Mess, Thatcher Was Right

Maggie Thatcher Saved Britain

The Life and Career of Margaret Thatcher: Interview

Margaret Thatcher Auction Prompts 'Family Feud'

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Sir Mark Thatcher is alleged by friends to have fallen out with twin sister Carol over her decision to sell items belonging to the former prime minister

Margaret Thatcher’s family are embroiled in a bitter family feud over an auction of the late prime minister’s personal possessions, it has been claimed.

Baroness Thatcher’s son Sir Mark Thatcher is said to have objected to his twin sister Carol’s decision to stage a sale of handbags, shoes and mementoes at Christie’s auction house this week.

The sale of more than 400 items is expected to raise upwards of £500,000.

According to friends the 62-year-old twins “cannot bear to be in the same room”. » | David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent | Sunday, December 13, 2015

'Our Maggie'

Mrs Thatcher: The Bruges Speech

Margaret Thatcher's historic speech, spawning The Bruges Group, delivered at Bruges in September 1988. Famously rejecting the centralised, unaccountable, federal Europe of Delors, Margaret Thatcher proposed instead a wider, decentralised, outward-looking democratic Europe of independent, freely- trading and cooperating nation states

Margaret Thatcher's Bruges Speech »

Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer’s Daughter to Iron Lady

The Telegraph: Charles Moore: My 18 years getting to know Mrs Thatcher » | Elizabeth Grice | Thursday, October 1, 2015

Margaret Thatcher

Newsnight: The Public and Private Face of Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher – Death of a Revolutionary – CH4

A documentary about the late former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which could be criticised for being an uncritical hommage rather than a balanced view of her premiership. Most of the negative impacts caused by the fundamental changes she brought to Britain have been "elegantly" omitted, but her motives, her basic believes, her encouraging message and everything positive she stood for are beautifully summarised and one understands why despite her errors and some misjudgement she could be praised as a great and visionary politician who not only changed Britain for the better (on balance) but had an influence on the world like few other politicians can claim.

A Channel 4 documentary by Martin Durkin with contributions by Kenneth Baker, Cecil Parkinson, Neil Kinnock, Kelvin MacKenzie, Norman Tebbit, Bernard Ingham, Charles Powell, Nigel Lawson and David Cameron.

MARGARET THATCHER: December 9, 2002 – Penultimate Public Speech

MARGARET THATCHER's acceptance speech for the Clare Boothe Luce Award by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, given on 9 December 2002. This was a particularly memorable and moving occasion since (as far as I know) it marked the penultimate speech the former Prime Minister ever gave in public, almost a year after being forced to retire from public speaking officially due to a series of strokes and her progressing dementia.

MARGARET THATCHER : The Making of Margaret (Telegraph Documentary)

Thatcher Defending Thatcherism

Margaret Thatcher's Personal Papers Saved for Nation after Family Donate Them to Reduce Inheritance Tax Bill

Exclusive: Baroness Thatcher's handwritten accounts of her time in Number 10 will be published on Thursday


Read The Telegraph article here | Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter | Wednesday, June 17, 2015

The Queen Mocked Margaret Thatcher for Her Accent, New Book Reveals

The Queen and Margaret Thatcher had a difficult relationship

SUNDAY EXPRESS: The Queen mocked Margaret Thatcher’s accent and tried to undermine her with “petty class put-downs”, a new book chronicling the pair’s relationship reveals.

The Monarch also referred to the then prime minister as “that woman” to Commonwealth leaders and made jokes about her behind her back, it was claimed.

As the Queen celebrates her official birthday this weekend, author Dean Palmer told how the two most powerful women in recent history had repeated disagreements that were “very personal, class driven and distinctly female”.

In The Queen And Mrs Thatcher: An Inconvenient Relationship, the fi rst published analysis of their lack of rapport, Palmer claims the two female figureheads “met and disliked each other on sight”.

The book tells how Mrs Thatcher’s “entire character was anathema” to the Queen. It also reveals how she mocked Thatcher’s accent, which she described as “Royal Shakespeare received pronunciation from circa 1950”. Meanwhile, Thatcher loathed trips to Balmoral, considering them a “tedious waste of time”.

The Falklands War also caused further resentment between the pair as Thatcher became lauded as “mother of the nation” and the “public face of Britain abroad”. Veteran television producer Mr Palmer, who has made documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV, writes: “For over a decade they quietly waged a war against each other on both a personal and political stage, disagreeing on key issues including sanctions against South Africa, the miners’ strike and allowing US planes to bomb Libya using British military bases.

Elizabeth found the means to snub and undermine her prime minister through petty class put-downs and Press leaks.” » | Camilla Tominey | Sunday, June 14, 2015

The Queen And Mrs Thatcher: An Inconvenient Relationship by Dean Palmer is published by The History Press, £20.

Margaret Thatcher Speech to Congress

MARGARET THATCHER FOUNDATION: Speech to Joint Houses of Congress »