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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 6h

🗣️ 'The only politician who ever made John Wayne look a wimp.’

📰 So said The Daily Mirror #OTD in 1993 ahead of the first episode of 'The Downing Street Years' being broadcast.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' has more:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher100

The cover of the boxset 'Thatcher The Downing Street Years'.

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 1d

🙁 Sorry to hear about Lady Annabel Goldsmith.

🚨 The news reminded me of this Andrew Roberts anecdote.

🤭 Arriving at Margaret Thatcher's Christmas party, Lady Annabel said: 'For God’s sake remind me not to curtsey; that’s what I did last time!':
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

Some anecdotes from Andrew Roberts including this:
Her regal stance at the top of the stairs could be unnerving: at one of Lady Thatcher’s Christmas parties in Belgrave Square, Lady Annabel Goldsmith whispered to me as we walked in: “For God’s sake remind me not to curtsey; that’s what I did last time!”

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 1d

🗣️ 'I felt as though I was taking a cruise missile to a clay pigeon shoot.’

📅 So said William Hague #OTD in 2003 about
taking Margaret Thatcher to the Commons tearoom in 1997.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' has more:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher100

A book cover featuring an image of Margaret Thatcher. It reads, 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street', Peter Just. There is a quote from Andrew Roberts, 'A joy to read'.

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 2d

📅 #OTD in 1993 Margaret Thatcher asked: 'Why should one be gagged?’

😶 Throughout her active ex-premiership she protested attempts to silence her.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' has the details:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' also reveals that in 1975 Margaret Thatcher identified Danny La Rue as the person best able to impersonate her:
www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/a...

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet

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An article which features an anecdote from 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' in which Margaret Thatcher suggests Danny La Rue as the best person best able to impersonate her.

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 3d

😊 Honoured to attend The Margaret Thatcher Centre's Margaret Thatcher 100th birthday dinner.

🗣️ 'Politics is exciting!' - delighted to have shared some reflections on Lady Thatcher in the programme.

🥳 Thrilled to see Lorna May Wadsworth's portrait - and to find my cufflinks!

#Thatcher100

Cover of The Margaret Thatcher Centre 100 Centennial Dinner brochure.

Extract from Peter Just in The Margaret Thatcher Centre 100 Centennial Dinner brochure.

Portrait of Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth.

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 4d

🗣️ 'Well, I’m ready for government. Anytime.’

🗓️ #OTD in 2003, The Telegraph reported these words of Lady Thatcher.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' includes more on her being asked about returning to office.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 5d

🎙️ Here's my @hansardsociety.bsky.social podcast with @ruthfox.bsky.social and @darcyxtip.bsky.social on 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' and ex-PMs in Parliament.

😊 Also do check out Theresa May's important Churchill-Attlee Democracy Lecture in the resources section.

#Thatcher100

Hansard Society @hansardsociety.bsky.social · 14d

🎧 What happens when the most powerful person in the country suddenly… isn’t?
With Margaret Thatcher’s centenary approaching, and her legacy still dividing the Tory faithful, we talk to @expremiers.bsky.social about his new book exploring her life and politics after No 10.

Former Prime Ministers: The role of Parliament in life after No 10 - Parliament Matters podcast, Episode 109

In this episode, we speak with Peter Just, author of a new book, Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street. Peter explores how Thatcher reinvented herself after her departure to maintain her…

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Biteback Publishing @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social · 7d

💙Celebrate 100 years since Margaret Thatcher’s birth with a special 2-for-1 offer! 🛍️Two books for £20 👉 www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margaretthatcher

@iaindale.bsky.social | @expremiers.bsky.social

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 6d

📘 You can get 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' from a bookshop or order it below to find out more about her in Italy.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #LadyT #IronLady #Myth #Legend

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Margaret Thatcher

The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 6d

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' begins in Italy.

😊 So it's great to see this new book about her from Liberilibri.

🙏🏻 Grazie Lorenzo Cianti!

#Thatcher100 #Liberilibri #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #IronLady #ExPremiers #Italy #Italia

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La donna che ha cambiato il mondo. Margaret Thatcher e la sua eredità di | Liberilibri Editrice | Liberilibri Editrice

Autori: Luca Bellardini Domenico Maria Bruni Lorenzo Castellani Elvira Cerritelli Cosimo Magazzino Daniele Meloni

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 7d

📘 You can get 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' from your local bookshop or order it below.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #LadyT #IronLady #Myth #Legend

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Margaret Thatcher

The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...

www.bitebackpublishing.com

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 7d

💥 REVEALED: the untold story of Margaret Thatcher and Danny La Rue.

📰 As covered in Andrew Pierce's Daily Mail column today!

📘 Get your copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' to find out more.

#Thatcher100 #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher

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ANDREW PIERCE: Danny La Rue? He had Maggie down to a T...

Margaret Thatcher , who would be 100 today, was the target of many impersonators over the years. There was Janet Brown's eerily accurate impression.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 8d

🔍 More research for my @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social and @andrewcrines.bsky.social piece on 'The Ghosts of Statecraft Past: Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and former Prime Ministers'.

😬 Not forgetting Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron, and Theresa May.

😱 We repeat: poor Rishi Sunak!

#ExPremiers

Boris Johnson's book, 'Unleashed', Simon Hart's 'Ungovernable', Liz Truss' 'Ten Years To Save The West', and Graham Brady's 'Kingmaker'.

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 8d

📘 You can get 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' from your local bookshop or order it on the link below.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #LadyT #IronLady #Myth #Legend

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Margaret Thatcher

The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...

www.bitebackpublishing.com

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 8d

🙂 There's more information on The Legacy Paintings and how you can bid for them on the link below.

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THE LEGACY PAINTINGS — Lorna May Wadsworth Portraits

Striking portraits of the late Baroness Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth (b. 1979) are going on display at Noho Studios in London, commemorating the centenary of the former British Prime Minis...

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 8d

😊 Delighted to meet Lorna May Wadsworth yesterday and see her fantastic 'An Iron Lady The Legacy Paintings'!

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' features Lorna's original portrait of Lady Thatcher, so I was especially delighted to see a version of it.

#Thatcher100 #IronLady

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A man and a woman smiling next to a portrait of Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth.

Two paintings of Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth.

Seven paintings of Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth.

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 9d

🛒 You can get 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' from your local bookshop or order it on the link below.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #LadyT #IronLady #Myth #Legend

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Margaret Thatcher

The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...

www.bitebackpublishing.com

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Another #SophieSpecial on #ThatcherAfterDowningStreetOnTour today!

🌎 Sophie's taken 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' across Birmingham to:

1⃣ Moseley
2⃣ Hall Green
3⃣ Sea Life
4⃣ Cadbury World

🙏🏻 Thanks, Sophie!

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #IronLady #MargaretThatcher

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A girl holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' under a sign for Moseley.

A girl holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' under a sign for Hall Green.

A girl holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' outside Sea Life in Birmingham.

A girl holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' outside Cadbury World in Birmingham.

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Matt Mert Somcag @mertsomcag.bsky.social · 9d

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Margaret Thatcher: “Whatever Happened to the British Lion?”| We’ll Be With Europe, But Not Of It🇬🇧

YouTube video by The Soldier Media

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 10d

🛒 You can get 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' from your local bookshop or order it on the link below.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #LadyT #IronLady #Myth #Legend

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Margaret Thatcher

The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...

www.bitebackpublishing.com

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 One last #CPC25 themed post.

📰 Margaret Thatcher's 1992, 1993, and 1998 conference visits generated @privateeyenews.bsky.social covers.

🌟 They demonstrated her enduring ability to grab the headlines and cause carnage.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' has more!

#Thatcher100

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A Private Eye cover from 1992. The headline is 'Tory Conference show of unity'. John Major is speaking to Margaret Thatcher. Out of Major's mouth is a speech bubble with the words 'Hello Margaret'. A speech bubble out of Lady Thatcher's mouth has the words 'Goodbye John.'

A Private Eye cover from 1993. The headline is 'Conference unity special'. On of a speech bubble from a telephone are the words 'It's time to make things up.' On of a speech bubble from Margaret Thatcher's mouth are the words, 'All right, John, I'll say I support you.'

A Private Eye cover from 1998. It is headlined, 'Hague speech lifts Tories'. Edward Heath is sat behind Margaret Thatcher. They are both looking at their watches. Out of their mouths there is a speech bubble. The words are, 'He's even worse than you.'

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 11d

💥 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' is now officially 'As seen on TV'!

📘 Wonderful to see the book feature in this Sky News piece.

🛒 You can order your copy here: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher100 #CPC25 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher

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Can Kemi Badenoch be the new Margaret Thatcher?

From a Margaret Thatcher photo collage to cardboard cutouts of the former prime minister, Kemi Badenoch had references to the Iron Lady all over the Conservative Party conference.

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 12d

📘 You can order 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' on the link below.

#CPC25 #ConservativePartyConference #Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #IronLady #LadyT

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Margaret Thatcher

The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...

www.bitebackpublishing.com

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 12d

⭐️ With Margaret Thatcher's triumphant appearances at the #CPC25 drawing to a close, here she is, the last one standing.

💫 Immortal and invincible, herself alone.

📘 For more on her at party conferences from 1991-2000 order 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.

#Thatcher100 #CPC25

A mosaic of Margaret Thatcher stood next to a cardboard cut-out of her.

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