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The Fall of Thatcher - a squalid coup

The Fall of Thatcher - a squalid coup

Update: 2019-03-24
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Charles Powell was Margaret Thatcher’s foreign affairs adviser for most of her premiership. They remained friends after she left office. He was with her in Paris when she discovered she had failed to beat Michael Heseltine by the necessary number of votes to avoid a second ballot. He reflect on her exit as a “party coup” that was little short of “squalid.”

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The Fall of Thatcher - a squalid coup

The Fall of Thatcher - a squalid coup

Ben Monro-Davies and Charles Powell