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Here Today Gone Tomorrow: Memoirs of an Errant Politician

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He served as a Treasury Minister in the Heath Government, and sat in Margaret Thatcher’s first Cabinet, initially as Trade Secretary and then as Defence Secretary. Gentleman that 1,000 miles off the coast of Argentina was not outside the range of the Argentine aircraft carrier with its embarked aircraft. They all set about me with screams of 'resign, resign' and then we had a meeting of the Tory Party upstairs and that went badly for Peter Carrington, the foreign secretary. He actually played a large role in persuading the Argentines of the lack of priority held by Britain towards the islands.

I came back [to London] that evening - this was on the Wednesday before the invasion on the Friday and the officials came over to the Ministry of Defence to give me a briefing and to my horror they showed me some intercepted signals.He served first as the Secretary of State for Trade and was moved to Defence in the reshuffle of January 1981. In 1985, he became chairman and chief executive of the banking firm Lazard Brothers, retiring in 1989. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

He was Secretary of State for Defence during the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the Falklands War in the Margaret Thatcher cabinet.If you have concerns about the language in this record, or you have information to improve it, please share your feedback. Born in Bideford, Devon, the son of Richard Nott and Phyllis (née Francis), Nott was educated at Bradfield College and was commissioned as a regular officer in the 2nd Gurkha Rifles (1952–1956). This catalogue was prepared by Louise King, in September 2006, using the collection (fonds) level description and box list prepared by Katharine Thomson of Churchill Archives Centre in December 2004. Nott served in the early 1970s government of Prime Minister Ted Heath as a junior Treasury minister.

He became one of Margaret Thatcher's chief lieutenants and was appointed Trade Secretary in her first Cabinet. We sometimes make mistakes in our spelling, transcription or categorisation, or miss information out of our records. Sometimes we discover new information that changes what we know about an object, such as who made it or used it.Day asked Nott whether the public should believe the retiring MP's statements on defence cuts, since (Day thought) Nott was a "here today, gone tomorrow politician" (Nott had either recently announced or was shortly to announce that he would not stand at the next election).

In 1966 Nott became MP for St Ives, Cornwall, a seat which he was to hold until his retirement in 1983. Subjects include: Admiral Sir Charles Lambe; Davis's view of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Mountbatten of Burma, including an extract from Davis's 1974 diary about him; opinions of Sir Winston Churchill, Field Marsha 1st Lord Slim and Field Marshal 1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein; the loss of HMSS Prince of Wales and Repulse, 1941; Roskill's dispute with his fellow-historian Arthur Marder; views of the wartime admirals, particularly Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Cunningham; the results of the. He was eventually replaced by Michael Heseltine in January 1983 after Nott decided not to seek re-election at the next General Election.He left to study law and economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. He was also Deputy Chairman of Royal Insurance PLC from 1986 to 1989 (Director, 1985-91) and Director of Record Treasury Management plc from 1991. I think this is the first insider's account of the decisions and tensions arising in what must have been Great Britain's last colonial war.

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