The The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher: The Diaries of Bernard Ingham

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The ultimate insider, Bernard Ingham was Margaret Thatcher's press secretary during her tenure at No. 10. These eagerly anticipated diaries will shed light on the final, dramatic two years of her time as Prime Minister and detail the coming crises which saw her resign in November 1990. Her final days saw some of the most remarkable events in British political history, and Ingham was, for once, helpless to steer events. These diaries will come to be viewed as arguably amongst the most important primary source material about her unexpected fall from power.

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"Entertainingly written and fulfils the first requirement of any political memoir, giving a tantalising glimpse of the hem of the black petticoat of power." The Tablet

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Bernard Ingham was a journalist for eighteen years, mostly in his native Yorkshire, before leaving The Guardian as labour reporter in 1967 on a short-term civil service contract with the National Board for Prices and Incomes. During his civil service career, he was press secretary to Barbara Castle, Robert Carr and Maurice Macmillan at the Department of Employment, and Lord Carrington, Eric Varley and Tony Benn at the Department of Energy, where he became the first head of the Energy Conservation Division. He was recruited by Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and remained with her as chief press secretary until her resignation and his retirement in 1990. At eighty-six, he still writes a weekly political column for the Yorkshire Post. He has published four books on Yorkshire and two on his experience of politics and communications: Kill the Messenger and The Wages of Spin.