The Finchley Factor
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Thatcher in Israel, 13 September 2018
Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East
by Azriel Bermant.
Cambridge, 274 pp., £22.99, September 2017,978 1 316 60630 8 Show More
by Azriel Bermant.
Cambridge, 274 pp., £22.99, September 2017,
“... By now called Margaret Thatcher, she was elected MP for Finchley in 1959: the first chapter of Azriel Bermant’s outstandingly valuable Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East is titled ‘Thatcher and the “Finchley Factor”’. Like Churchill’s Manchester seat, this outer suburb of North London had a large Jewish population, not universally loved ... ”
