Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first and to date only woman to hold either post. The term "Downing Street" is also used as a metonym for the Prime Minister or the British Government more generally.

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Mrs. Thatcher described the economic problems Britain faced as having evolved from the ideal of a "democratic socialist society" that Labour espoused. The producers of this book obviously believed that it was better reviewed unread. With that judgment I have a good deal of sympathy, although many parts of the narrative, even when erstwhile colleagues are not being savaged, carry the reader along perfectly easily and even agreeably. About the avoidance of reviewers' normal appraisal, however, there can be no doubt. The concentration on the 'hype' of a dramatic release, combined with the ineffective hysteria of the serialising newspaper about the protection of its own monopoly, meant that the book was not available for reviewers until mid-morning of the day before publication last Monday.

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Many of Walpole’s successors, however, were not impressed with what William Pitt the Younger called a “vast, awkward house” and chose to continue to reside in their own personal homes. By the early 1800s, the neighborhood around Downing Street also grew seedy with brothels and gin joints. Calling 10 Downing Street “dingy and decaying,” Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli paid for the renovation of the home’s personal quarters in 1874 while the government financed the improvement of other parts of the residence. Since 1902, every British prime minister has called Downing Street home.

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Both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan reached a fine old age, 87 and 93 respectively. After a productive life they both ended their final years and died from Alzheimer's disease.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-12-03 23:15:58 Boxid IA137121 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Comment Set Scanfee to 100 on all Pre-June IA Sponsored Books as per Robert Donor This first volume of her memoirs is a riveting first-hand portrait of the events and personalities of her eleven years in power. She recalls the triumphs and the critical moments of her premiership – the Falklands War, the miners' strike, the Brighton bomb, the Westland Affair and her unprecedented three election victories. Her judgements of the men and women she encountered, whether world statesmen or Cabinet colleagues, are astonishingly frank. She is lavish with her praise; devastating with her criticism. The book reaches a gripping climax with an hour-by-hour description from inside 10 Downing Street of her dramatic final days in office. On the afternoon of 25 May 2023 the gates were damaged when a car crashed into them. The Prime Minister was inside at the time. A man was arrested by police and the incident was not terrorism related. [21] [22] Public right of way [ edit ] Downing Street in the late 1980s, before the gates were installed A Man on the Moon/The Downing Street Years/Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop/The Withering Child (Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction, Volume 30: 1994)

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Samantha Cameron and First Lady Michelle Obama chat before having tea in the private residence at Downing Street. The unread market is not, however, one to be sniffed at, as the royalties of Arnold Toynbee and even Churchill proved. As is shown by several touches in this book, Lady Thatcher would take satisfaction from any connection with the latter. (I am not sure of her views about Toynbee's theory of history). 'I slept well', she concludes the chapter on the night when the 1979 general election and her premiership loomed, presumably in conscious imitation of Churchill's famous passage describing his emotions on 10 May, 1940. Equally, she writes that she liked Chequers 'playing a large part in the Falklands story', because it recalled the days of Churchill's leadership. Fortunately the perils of 1982 were somewhat less than those of 1940, while the resonance and flourishes of the Thatcher style are correspondingly less than those of the chronicler of the days when Britain stood alone. The style of this book is by no means bad, but it is curiously impersonal. Lady Thatcher has, of course, made considerable use of collaborators. So, for that matter, did Churchill, although in his case there was no question of their preventing the individuality of his style from dominating the manuscript. Here, on the contrary, they reduce the author for long passages to a writer of bland prose. It is like a river which meanders for many miles through an only gently undulating countryside until it suddenly comes to an interesting little gorge. Downing Street were the houses between Number 9 and Whitehall that were taken over by the government and demolished in 1824 to allow the construction of the Privy Council Office, Board of Trade and Treasury offices. Vehicle access was curtailed in 1973 when metal barriers were placed across the entrance to the street. [18] In 1974, the Metropolitan Police proposed erecting a semi-permanent barrier between the pavement and carriageway on the Foreign Office side to keep pedestrians off the main part of the street. The proposal came with assurances that tourists would still be permitted to take photographs at the door of Number 10. The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, rejected the proposal, feeling that it would appear to be an unacceptable restriction of the freedom of the public. Wilson's private secretary wrote "I much regret this further erosion of the Englishman's right to wander at will in Downing Street." [19] The Downing Street Years is a memoir by Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, covering her premiership of 1979 to 1990. It was accompanied by a four-part BBC television series of the same name.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] 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] The historian Kenneth O. Morgan has written that the spectacular fall of Labour (cursed not to regain power for 18 years) and the rise of Mrs. Thatcher “meant the end of an ancien régime, a system of corporatism, Keynesian spending programmes, subsidised welfare, and trade union power.” By 1979, the United Kingdom, like much of Western Europe, had acquiesced to what seemed the inevitable advance toward comprehensive (democratic) socialism. In this sense, Mrs. Thatcher was not at all a woman of her times.

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I briefly dipped into this at various places of interest and looked at 'The World Turned Right Side Up': visit to Washington in July 1987, at a time when MT's political fortunes were riding high and President Reagan was reeling under the continuing 'Irangate' revelations. I listened to this on tape and I also plan on reading the hard cover. I got the audio version from the library but bought both parts of her biographies. After the death of Sir Knyvet and his wife, the building passed to their niece, Elizabeth Hampden and the house became known as Hampden House. 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”. 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.Downing Street was originally part of 12 Downing Street before the housing area was partially re-built and re-numbered in 1876. What was the ratio divide between medical science and defence budgets? I'd love to know the ratio between expenditure on defence and expenditure on medical research while the two leaders were in power? Are you with me? Official residences and offices of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Department 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)