The Downing Street Years

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At each point Mrs Thatcher explains fully her reasons for the decisions she made and policies she followed.

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She gives riveting accounts of the great and critical moments of her premiership - the three election victories, the Falklands War, the Miners' Strike, the Brighton Bomb, the Westland Affair, her battles abroad with foreign federalists and at home with faint-hearted or misguided ministers.The fact that she only won by one vote in Parliament to become Prime Minister and survived a bombing was also highly entertaining. Disraeli persuaded the state to pay for the redecoration of the public rooms, although he paid for the refurbishment of the private rooms himself.

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Indeed, here she concedes to a perverse undermining of her own guiding principle: stronger powers should have been allotted to central government. Born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, she went on to read Chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford. I had thought I might find 'The Downing Street Years' unwatchable: four hours of self-justification by Brtian's controversial (and recently deceased) former Prime Minister. Thatcher “meant the end of an ancien régime, a system of corporatism, Keynesian spending programmes, subsidised welfare, and trade union power.On reaching chapter three, 'Into the Whirlwind', page 60, I decided to move this tome to the Read list. The Downing Street Years is a memoir by Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, covering her premiership of 1979 to 1990. Current leaders on both sides of the Atlantic have to deal with an environment that she helped create, for better or worse.

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Parker's 1993 monograph on Chamberlain and appeasement, and chiefly Sidney Aster's 1989 essay which resurrected the 1940 ‘guilty men’ charges against the appeasers and used Chamberlain's letters to his sisters as the principal evidence. The residence was built alongside the official residence of the Prime Minister at Number 10 in 1682. After the considerable damage sustained by the residence during World War II, complete demolition was considered but ultimately rejected in favor of a massive renovation during the 1950s. The street was built in the 1680s by Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, on the site of a mansion, Hampden House.

Her principles of thrift and 'waste not want not' are basic and universal truths for those who believe in sound economics and not the 'lend to have it now' philosophy. Thatcher’s budgetary measures brought down inflation to a steady 4-5% throughout most of her premiership.

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She gives opinions on other politicians/ leaders without any diplomatic varnish at all, but she is also willing to acknowledge admirable traits, even of long-standing adversaries. In fact, the programme is studiously neutral in its political conclusions, but ruthlessly incisive in its personal ones; and the person who wields the knife is in fact Thatcher herself, though she is its main victim.As is shown by several touches in this book, Lady Thatcher would take satisfaction from any connection with the latter.