Mrs Thatcher’s Instincts
Barbara Wootton, 7 August 1980
Mrs Thatcher’s First Year
by Hugh Stephenson.
Jill Norman, 128 pp., £6.50, June 1980,0 906908 16 7 Show More
by Hugh Stephenson.
Jill Norman, 128 pp., £6.50, June 1980,
“... faced with the prospect of heading a minority government, discussed with the then Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe the possibility of some sort of coalition. But Steel reports that it was ‘the almost universal opinion’ of Liberal MPs that no such offer should be accepted, as it would merely give them a seat or two in an essentially Tory government. They ... ”