The Downing Street Years

Title Page......Page 2
Dedication......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 6
CHAPTER I - Over the Shop......Page 15
CHAPTER II - Changing Signals......Page 33
CHAPTER III - Into the Whirlwind......Page 51
CHAPTER IV - Not At All Right, Jack......Page 78
CHAPTER V - Not for Turning......Page 103
CHAPTER VI - The West and the Rest......Page 132
CHAPTER VII - The Falklands War: Follow the Fleet......Page 146
CHAPTER VIII - The Falklands: Victory......Page 180
CHAPTER IX - Generals, Commissars and Mandarins......Page 200
CHAPTER X - Disarming the Left......Page 224
CHAPTER XI - Home and Dry......Page 238
CHAPTER XII - Back to Normalcy......Page 258
CHAPTER XIII - Mr Scargill’s Insurrection......Page 287
CHAPTER XIV - Shadows of Gunmen......Page 320
CHAPTER XV - Keeps Raining all the Time......Page 351
CHAPTER XVI - Men to Do Business With......Page 380
CHAPTER XVII - Putting the World to Rights......Page 410
CHAPTER XVIII - Jeux Sans Frontières......Page 453
CHAPTER XIX - Hat Trick......Page 473
CHAPTER XX - An Improving Disposition......Page 497
CHAPTER XXI - Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life......Page 528
CHAPTER XXII - A Little Local Difficulty......Page 542
CHAPTER XXIII - To Cut and to Please......Page 564
CHAPTER XXIV - Floaters and Fixers......Page 581
CHAPTER XXV - The Babel Express......Page 614
CHAPTER XXVI - The World Turned Right Side Up......Page 649
CHAPTER XXVII - No Time to Go Wobbly......Page 689
CHAPTER XXVIII - Men in Lifeboats......Page 700
Chronology......Page 728
The Cabinet and Other Important Offices......Page 738
List of Abbreviations......Page 752
Index......Page 758
Acknowledgements......Page 823
Copyright......Page 825
About the Publisher......Page 826