The Downing Street Years

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Thatcher's close friend Woodrow Wyatt recounted in his diary on 3 February 1989 a conversation he had with Rupert Murdoch who wanted Thatcher to write her equivalent of Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika, explaining her philosophy and that John O'Sullivan could do all the "donkey work" for her. Wyatt countered this by stating that the chairman of the publishing house Collins had tried to get him to persuade Thatcher to publish her memoirs with Collins and Thatcher herself seemed favourable to this option. [1] The next day Wyatt put Murdoch's idea to Thatcher but she claimed she did not have the time. [2] Lawson might have damaged her trust by his clandestine (to her, not to anyone else) walkout with the D-mark, but then: 'He certainly had a nerve, I thought: but then Nigel always did. That was one of his engaging characteristics.' That was certainly better than Howe, who would always be remembered for his 'final act of bile and treachery'. By the time Benjamin Disraeli became Prime Minister in 1868, the house was in poor shape. No-one had lived there for 30 years and Disraeli described it as “dingy and decaying”. Downing College, Cambridge was founded in 1800, under the terms of the will of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet (died 1749). A door from Number 10 is in use in the college. [11]

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In 1682 the renowned architect Sir Christopher Wren was employed to redesign the houses. Between 1682 and 1684, a cul-de-sac of 15 to 20 terraced houses was built, now called Downing Street. Downing Street was originally part of 12 Downing Street before the housing area was partially re-built and re-numbered in 1876.Number 10 Downing Street had several distinguished residents between 1688 and the early 1730s when King George II presented it to Sir Robert Walpole, then First Lord of the Treasury and effectively the first Prime Minister. Walpole refused to accept the property as a personal gift. Instead, he asked the king to make it available to him as an official residence, thus starting the tradition that continues today. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-12-10 02:49:22 Boxid IA40001320 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier It is a long book to read, but each chapter has a particular theme so taking breaks and reading over an extended period is quite possible. Helpfully the chapters are subdivided into smaller sections allowing a further break up of your reading. In some ways, it is very interesting to read this book now. From the outset, the Britain she faced when taking office was very much like America today: Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

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Mrs. Thatcher’s great battle with the coal miners union in 1984 is now the stuff of legend. She writes that “history intertwined with myth seemed to have made coal mining in Britain a special case: it had become an industry where reason simply did not apply.” She was unwilling to relent on coal pit closures on economic grounds, as indeed the Labour government had closed 32 pits between 1974-79. Suffice it to say that a similar strike had toppled the Conservative government of Ted Heath some 10 years earlier. By contrast, the miners gradually returned to work in 1985 having won no concessions from the Thatcher government. The union was permanently hobbled, uneconomic pits were closed, and Mrs. Thatcher won over the greater part of public opinion. As the years progressed (and due largely to the continued efforts of Norman Tebbit), the TUC was no longer in a position to cripple industry or public services with strikes. And despite the rhetoric which sough to cast Labour and the unions as noble defenders of the working man, many of the Thatcher government’s reforms were undeniably beneficial to workers’ rights—e.g., state-subsidized mail ballots, which prevented union leaders from intimidating workers into supporting strikes with public votes. Twenty-eight chapters including 'Over the Shop', 'The West and the Rest', (hmmm), 'The Falklands War: Follow the Fleet', 'Disarming the Left', 'Mr Scargill's Insurrection', 'Keeps Raining all the Time', 'Putting the World to Rights', 'To Cut and to Please', 'The World Turned Right Side Up', 'No Time to Go Wobbly', and 'Men in Lifeboats'. Barriers were erected at the St James's Park end of the street for the unveiling of the Cenotaph on 11 November 1920. They were a public safety measure intended to prevent the crowds in Whitehall becoming too dense. [16] a b Green, David Allen. "What powers do the Downing Street police actually have?". New Statesman (blogs). See also: Townhouse (Great Britain) Downing Street looking west. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is on the left, the red house is No.12, the dark houses are No.11 and No.10 (nearer, and partially obscured), and the building on the right is the Barry wing of the Cabinet Office, which has its main frontage to Whitehall. The corner at Downing Street and WhitehallDepartment of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster. "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 25 Oct 1989". Publications.parliament.uk. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)