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Peter Just
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Peter Just posting about UK former prime ministers.

Author of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life after Downing Street' - coming via @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social in July 2025.

#ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #ExPremiers #AfterDowningStreet
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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · Oct 5
🧵 What do Prime Ministers do once out of office?

🚨 It's often not what you think.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' explodes the myths that have surrounded her ex-premiership.

🔍 It also provides a framework in which to study the Office of Former Prime Minister.

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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'.
expremiers.bsky.social
🥳 Day 8 of the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

💥 If you want an analytic framework in which to study the Office of Former Prime Minister...

🎄...that’s reason 8 to get it this Christmas:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
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'.
December 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🗣️ ‘I fear there will be much grammar to be corrected.’

🗓️ Thus did Margaret Thatcher conclude her evidence to the 'Arms for Iraq' inquiry #OTD in 1993:
www.margaretthatcher.org/document%2F1...

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' has much, much more on it.
Extract from Margaret Thatcher's evidence to the 'Arms for Iraq' inquiry on 8 December 1993. Extract from 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' by Peter Just on Margaret Thatcher's evidence to the 'Arms for Iraq' inquiry on 8 December 1993.
December 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🥳 Day 7 of the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

💥 If you like your history with a splash of histrionics thrown in...

🎄 ...that’s reason 7 to get it this Christmas:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
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'.
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🔍 More research on that period of Stanley Baldwin's life when he did in fact 'speak to the man on the bridge' and 'spit on the deck' for the forthcoming @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social and Dr Daniel Pitt 'Rediscovering One Nation Conservatism: Stanley Baldwin - his life, work, and legacy' conference.
Harold Wilson's book 'A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers', Lord Longford's book 'Eleven at No. 10', and Harold Macmillan's book 'The Past Masters'.
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🥳 2nd anniversary visit to The National Archives yesterday.

📂 750+ files and counting on life after the premiership.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' contains many of the gems I've uncovered.

🫵🏻🫵🏾🫵🏿 You can get your copy here:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
😂 'There is understandable excitement about the mention of the name'.

🗓️ So said Eleanor Laing on this day in 2023.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' has more on this particular piece of 'excitement':
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher
Extract from Prime Minister's Questions on 6 December 2023.
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🥳 Day 6 of the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

💥 The book has revelation after revelation after revelation courtesy of The National Archives.

🎄 That’s reason 6 to get it this Christmas:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
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'.
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🥳 Day 5 of the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

💥 The book is full of heroes and anti-heroes - sometimes they're one and the same person.

🎄 That’s reason 5 to get it this Christmas:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
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'.
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🇮🇹 Last weekend, I took the 'Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher' and 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' to the place where my first drafts were written: two roof terraces in Rome.

🌅 On the left, the morning writing.

🌇 On the right, the afternoon.

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#Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
'The Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher' edited by Philip Norton and Matt Beech next to 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' by Peter Just. 'The Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher' edited by Philip Norton and Matt Beech next to 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' by Peter Just.
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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✍🏻 'I am seeing how best I can continue to have some influence on politics at home and overseas.'

🗓️ So wrote Margaret Thatcher #OTD in 1990:
www.margaretthatcher.org/document/111...

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' covers that influence:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
Letter from Margaret Thatcher to George Younger dated 4 December 1990. Letter from Margaret Thatcher to George Younger dated 4 December 1990.
December 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🚨 Future #ExPremiers research question.

🤔 Will it be the post-prime ministerial interviews of Harold Macmillan or the 'Friday Night, Saturday Morning' of Harold Wilson?
jaheale.bsky.social James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 4d
New: Liz Truss will tomorrow premiere the first episode of The Liz Truss Show.

Billed as "A bold new programme in a media landscape dominated by groupthink and timid consensus".

Truss: "The Deep State tried to destroy me but now I'm back and excited to launch this show."
December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🥳 Day 4 of the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

💥 The book also covers some of the things Edward Heath, James Callaghan, and John Major got up to as ex-PMs.

🎄 That’s reason 4 to get it this Christmas:
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'.
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
✍🏻 'I am seeing how best I can continue to have some influence on politics at home and overseas.'

🗓️ So wrote Margaret Thatcher #OTD in 1990:
www.margaretthatcher.org/document/111...

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' covers that influence:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
Letter from Margaret Thatcher to George Younger dated 4 December 1990. Letter from Margaret Thatcher to George Younger dated 4 December 1990.
December 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🥳 Day 3 of the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

💥 'This lively and stimulating book is long overdue' is how it's been described by Anthony Seldon.

🎄 That’s reason 3 to get it this Christmas:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher
“Margaret Thatcher spent twice as long as a post-premier as she did in Downing Street. No one since Churchill has commanded so much presence on the world stage after they retired or been such a presence in British politics. This lively and stimulating book is long overdue.” Anthony Seldon, author of The Impossible Office? The History Of The British Prime Minister on 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🚨 'Oh fuck off'.

🗣️ So responded Billy Bragg #OTD in 2023 to Keir Starmer's comments about Margaret Thatcher.

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

x.com/billybragg/s...

#Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100
Billy Bragg on X: "Oh fuck off. https://t.co/NB9FBpe4m3" / X
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December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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🚨 'Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism.'

✍🏻 So wrote Keir Starmer #OTD in 2023.

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

#Thatcher
Screenshot of a Daily Telegraph article by Keir Starmer from 2 December 2023.
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🥳 Day 2 of the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

💥 The book’s stuffed full of examples of Lady Thatcher winding men up and men allowing themselves to be wound up by her.

🎄 That’s reason 2 to get it this Christmas:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
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'.
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🥳 Day 1 of the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

💥 The book explodes many of the myths that have surrounded Margaret Thatcher’s life as a former prime minister.

🎄 That’s reason 1 to get it this Christmas:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#MargaretThatcher
Cover of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
In December 2011, while visiting Sydney, I saw a preview of 'The Iron Lady' starring Meryl Streep.

🎭 But which actress has captured Margaret Thatcher best, do you think?

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' has the answer:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
A man wearing a t-shirt featuring Margaret Thatcher as Che Guevara. The man is stood next to a poster for the film, 'The Iron Lady'.
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🗣️ 'I must say on the whole my method of tackling with aggression was quite a good one when I was in office.'

🗓️ So said Margaret Thatcher #OTD in 1994:
www.margaretthatcher.org/document/110...

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' has more on the story.
Extract from an interview by John Simpson with Margaret Thatcher on 30 November 1994. SIMPSON: [Question paraphrased] Your view of how Foreign Office & Douglas Hurd have acted? THATCHER: The Foreign Office will not be surprised to know that I disagree with them. SIMPSON: And Douglas Hurd? THATCHER: Douglas, I like Douglas very much, he and I disagree on how to tackle these problems and I must say on the whole my method of tackling with aggression was quite a good one when I was in office.
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
💥 Margaret Thatcher: special announcement.

🗓️ Tomorrow, we're launching the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

🎄 24 reasons over 24 days to buy the book this Christmas.

🥳 And the usual daily tweets.

😻 Yes, really!

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
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'.
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🗓️ On this day in 1990, Margaret Thatcher started her first full day as a former Prime Minister.

❌ Almost everything we've thought about her life as an ex-PM has been wrong.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' explodes the myths about it:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
Cover of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
📘 Fitting that on the 35th anniversary of her resignation as prime minister, the @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social & Matt Beech edited Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher is heading off on tour.

🤔 Where's the first stop?

♥️🧡 Clue: where my chapter was written.
The Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher on the Heathrow Express.
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🗓️ On this day in 1990, Margaret Thatcher resigned.

🌟 In leaving Downing Street, she entered immortality.

💥 The myths and misunderstandings about her life as a former PM need exploding.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' does that:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM