Clarke delivered an attack which recalled Howe’s on Thatcher.
Progressive commentators and saloon-bar orators are wrong to condemn MPs for finding the national issue hard to settle.
William Keegan’s memoir describes with ebullient good humour how he covered half a century of bad news.
Though not as devastating as Sir Geoffrey Howe’s resignation statement, this one still pointed the Government on a new course.
Caroline Slocock says the first woman Prime Minister, whose downfall she witnessed, deserves the admiration rather than the contempt of feminists.
Bonar Law’s words in 1922 apply to the present leader: “The party elects a leader, and that leader chooses the policy, and if the party does not like it, they have to get another leader.”
The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.
They can wring their hands one day and ring the bells the next – or vice-versa. After all, they rejoiced when sterling joined the ERM. We know how that one ended.
From Howe’s famous budget to the sacking of the Wets, a crucial few months proved to be deeply formative for Thatcher.
From eight weeks ago. “Young people should ensure that politics isn’t rumbling in the hands of antiques.”
“It’s rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.”
Thatcher’s biographer captures the extreme precariousness of her position even as she confounded the Left and scored some of her greatest triumphs.
In the final instalment of our new mini-series on families and tax, the authors explore how errors in the current arrangements might be fixed.