Memories of Margaret Thatcher NEW UPDATED EDITION by Iain Dale (Signed copy) COMING APRIL 2025

Published to mark the centenary of Margaret Thatcher's birth in 1925.

Updated with more than 20 new essays

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10 April 2025

To mark the centenary of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's birth and to celebrate the incomparable career of this colossus of British and global politics, this new, updated edition of Memories of Margaret Thatcher brings together personal reminiscences and anecdotes from more than a two hundred political figures. these entries are tributes from friends, opponents, and those who observed her from the press gallery. Each contributor experienced a close encounter with the Iron Lady, among them Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bob Hawke, Boris Johnson, Michael Howard, William Hague, Ann Widdecombe, Edwina Currie, Alan Clark, Norman Tebbit and Geoffrey Howe, whose resignation speech in Parliament can be said to have brought to a dramatic end the Thatcher Era. Originally published in 2005, with an expanded edition in 2013, this edition contains 20% new material and includes contributions from political stars of today.

List of new contributors

Penny Mordaunt
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg
Penny Mordaunt
Iain Duncan Smith
Nadine Dorries
Michael Fallon
Andrea Leadsom
Steve Hilton
John Simpson
Sir Brandon Lewis
Sir Graham Brady
Harvey Proctor
Kirsty Wark
Jonathan Aitken
Kemi Badenoch
Gyles Brandreth
Virginia Bottomley
Mark Fullbrook
Sukey Cameron
Mike Love
Roger Boaden
Derek Conway
Nick de Bois

List of original contributors

Adam Afriyie
Adam Boulton
Alan Clark
Alan Duncan
Alex Aiken
Alexander Haig
Alfred Sherman
Alistair Burt
Andrew MacKay
Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Riley
Andrew Roberts
Andrew Rosindell
Andrew Rowe
Andrew Tyrie
Angela Browning
Ann Leslie
Ann Widdecombe
Anne Jenkin
Anthony Seldon
Archie Hamilton
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Baroness Cox
Bernard Ingham
Bernard Jenkin
Bill Deedes
Bob Hawke
Boris Johnson
Brian Monteith
Carol Thatcher
Cecil Parkinson
Charles Powell
Cheryl Gillan
Chris Moncrieff
Christine Hamilton
Christopher Chope
Christopher Collins
Christopher Lawson
Conor Burns
Crispin Blunt
Cynthia Crawford
David Cameron
Daniel Hannan
David Davis
David Mitchell
David Owen
David Steel
David Waddington
David Young
Daviid Amess
Deborah Slattery
Dominic Prince
Doreen Miller
Earl Ferrers
Edward du Cann
Edward Pearce
Edwina Currie
Richard Body
Eleanor Laing
Elzabeth Cotterell
Emma Nicholson
Eric Forth
Eric Pickles
Esther Rantzen
Francesca Makins
Francis Maude
Frank Field
Geoffrey Howe
George Gardiner
George Osborne
George Robertson
George Thomas
Gerald Howarth
Gerald Kaufmam
Gillian Shephard
Greg Knight
Hartley Booth
Harvey Thomas
Helmut Kohl
Henry Kissinger
Henry Plumb
Howard Flight
Hugh Thomas
Hugo Young
Irwin Bellwin
James Baker
James Douglas-Hamilton
James Palumbo
Janet Fookes
Janice Richards
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Jean Trumpington
Jerry Hayes
Jihn Nott
Joan Seccombe
John Biffen
John Blundell
John Denham
John Gilbert
John Gummer
John Junor
John MacGregor
John Mackay
John Redwood
John Stanley
John Wakeham
John Whittingdale
Jonathan Hill
Julia Langdon
Kate Adie
Keith Simpson
Kenneth Baker
Kenneth Clarke
Laurence Robertson
Lech Walesa
Liam Fox
Linda Mcdougall
Lynda Chalker
Malcolm Caithness
Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Rifkind
Margaret King
Mark Lennox-Boyd
Mark Menzies
Mark Prisk
Mark Schreiber
Matthew Parris
Maurice Saatchi
Michael Ashcroft
Michael Brown
Michael Brunson
Michael Cockerell
Michael Dobbs
Michael Forsyth
Michael Howard
Michael Jopling
Michael Morris
Michael Reagan
Michael Spicer
Michael Thornton
Michael York
Mike Freer
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nancy Reagan
Neil Hamilton
Nicholas Bennett
Nicholas Edwardes
Nicholas Finney
Nicholas Ridley
Nicholas Winterton
Nigel Fletcher
Nigel Lawson
Norman Fowler
Norman Lamont
Norman Tebbit
Olga Polizzi
Oliver Letwin
Paddy Ashdown
Patrick Cormack
Patrick Jenkin
Patrick Minford
Patrick Nicholls
Paul Elliott
Paul Schooling
Peter Emery
Peter Lilley
Peter Riddell
Petronella Wyatt
Philip Davies
Piers Morgan
Quentin Davies
Ralph Harris
Rex Hunt
Richard Kaye
Richard Needham
Richard Parsons
Richard Stone
Richard Wilson
Robert Armstrong
Robert Halfon
Robert Key
Robin Butler
Robin Renwick
Robon Day
Roger Freeman
Ronald Millar
Ronald Reagan
Roy Hattersley
Ruud Lubbers
Sandy Woodward
Sayeeda Warsi
Sebastian Coe
Shimon Peres
Shirley Williams
Sir John Major
Stephen Sherbournr
Steve Nallon
Steven Norris
Sue Cameron
Teddy Taylor
Terry Burns
Terry Major-Ball
Tim Quint
Tim Renton
Tom McNally
Tom Utley
Tony Benn
Tony Bladry
Vaclav Klaus
William Hague
William Waldegrave
William Whitelaw