A Journey With Margaret Thatcher

Prologue ix
Introduction xvii
I ‘So clearly the best man among them’ 1
II ‘The odd woman out’ 13
III ‘A long-standing source of grief ’ 27
IV ‘That little ice-cold bunch of land down there’ 41
V ‘This is democracy and our islands’ 65
VI ‘One country, two systems’ 81
VII ‘Getting our money back’ 93
VIII ‘What British politician will ever 107
really understand Northern Ireland?’
IX ‘Time for some straight talking with 123
our American friends’
X ‘I felt as if there had been an 149
earthquake under my feet’
XI ‘A special relationship’ 163
XII ‘The whole world will be against you, led by me’ 179
XIII ‘A very powerful lady – someone I would 195
rather have as an ally than an enemy’
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XIV ‘If you try to buck the market, 211
the market will buck you’
XV ‘An unambiguous failure’ 225
XVI ‘No time to go wobbly’ 245
XVII ‘A single currency is not the 255
policy of this government’
XVIII ‘The United States can be relied upon to 267
do the right thing in the end, having first
exhausted the available alternatives’
XIX ‘The conveyor belt to federalism’ 271
XX ‘Signposts and weathervanes’ 279
Acknowledgements 291
Notes 293
Index 299