Ian Pitchford

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May was now facing a crisis. That morning Michael Howard suggested she might be prepared to go to war over Gibraltar as Margaret Thatcher had over the Falklands in 1982: ‘Thirty-five years ago this week, another woman prime minister sent a task force halfway across the world to defend the freedom of another small group of British people against another Spanish-speaking country, and I’m absolutely certain that our current prime minister will show the same resolve in standing by the people of Gibraltar.’ Few in Downing Street doubted that Picardo had briefed the papers or that he intended to ...more
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
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