People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me

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Places rich in social infrastructure are naturally preventative, helping to create well-being, generating resourcefulness and resilience and providing social networks that provide support when things get tough. The new private secretary thus “by chance happened to walk into this extraordinary story – a very human drama of betrayal, anger and determination”.

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Smiles before the storm. Margaret Thatcher meets Norfolk marshman Eric Edwards in 1990. Picture: Adrian Judd (Image: Archant � 2004) Second, it’s not just about money, it’s also about recognising the rich resources that may already exist, many of which may be non-financial, and also giving communities a real say over what happens in their community and about where any new investment goes. Many people still benefit from an earlier, golden age of investment in social infrastructure. Many schools, hospitals, sewers, libraries, public parks and sports facilities originate from that period and were effectively common goods, held in public ownership for the benefit of the public. The welfare state, which was also designed to reduce poverty and illness, provided another, national expression of the belief that collective investment in mutual health and wellbeing is to everyone’s benefit. ‘A loss of assets’

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A remarkable political and personal memoir, People Like Us charts the dying days of Thatcher’s No. 10 and reflects on women and power, then and now. I used to like the inexorable logic that Sir Humphrey used to apply to situations and I’m sure there is some of that in my writing.” We talk about poverty and income inequalities but some places are very much richer in social infrastructure than others and this also makes a real difference to personal health and well-being, equality and opportunity. A sense of betrayal hangs in the air of the Cabinet Room as prime minister Margaret Thatcher reads out her resignation statement. She breaks down after every few words. When she manages to reach the end, she says: “I doubt you all heard that, so I will read it again.” She doesn’t seem to notice that others, including her cabinet colleagues, are also in tears. I think there’s this slight phenomenon where you think you have to do everything perfectly. So she always did her ‘homework’; always did her boxes (of papers to read and sign); prepared for every speech really carefully. She put her heart and soul into the job.