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Mrs Thatcher is the sort of Prime Minister whom the Foreign Office think the gods have sent to try them. She is the first incumbent of 10 Downing Street since Neville Chamberlain to lead a government without previous experience of managing an external department — even Harold Wilson had been President of the Board of Trade. And she is, as they swiftly discovered, no Harold Wilson: what she lacked in personal experience she amply made up for in determination.
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© 1984 Lord Bruce-Gardyne of Kirkden
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Bruce-Gardyne, L. (1984). Settlement with Salisbury and Strife with Brussels. In: Mrs Thatcher’s First Administration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17557-4_3
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