In the issue out tomorrow, we mark the 20th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s departure from Downing Street with contributions from Roy Hattersley, Norman Lamont, John Sergeant and Geoffrey Howe (see a sneak preview of the cover here).
We’ve also got a great counterfactual history from Dominic Sandbrook, who uses his regular column to pose the question: “What if . . . Thatcher had stayed on?”
Over the next seven days we’ll carry the pick of our Margaret Thatcher coverage from the archive, plus a few new pieces written exclusively for the web. Imaginatively, we’re calling it Thatcher Week.
We start with the ten moments that defined the Iron Lady’s 11 years in office:
1. Thatcher enters 10 Downing Street | 4 May 1979
2. First party conference as PM | 10 October 1980
3. The recapture of South Georgia | 25 April 1982
4. The Battle of Orgreave | 18 June 1984
5. The Brighton bombing | 12 October 1984
6. Thatcher meets Gorbachev | 16 December 1984
7. Heseltine resigns | 9 January 1986
8. The Battle of Trafalgar | 31 March 1990
9. Gulf war advice to Bush | 3 August 1990
10. The resignation speech | 28 November 1990
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