The Fall of Thatcher - and #metoo

03/14/19 • 29 min

Caroline Slocock was private secretary to Margaret Thatcher - and the only other woman in the room when she resigned to cabinet. She saw her fall very much as a woman surrounded by and undone by men - even though she had little sympathy for many of Thatcher's policies. The moment affected her deeply - and she believes her eventual downfall must be seen as the consequence of a woman's struggles in a man's world.

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The fall of Thatcher - Inside the Bunker

Barry Potter and Dominic Morris were private secretaries to Margaret Thatcher at the time of her fall. They were in the room when she stumbled through her resignation statement to cabinet. And they supported her in the painful days afterwards as power flooded away from the Iron Lady. As officials rather than politicians, they provide an all too human perspective on the end of her days in Downing St.

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The Fall of Thatcher - what Butler saw

Robin Butler served Prime Ministers from Wilson to Blair. But as he said at her leaving do, there is only one anyone asks him about. He recalls her fall from power and his efforts to ensure the ship of state kept sailing.