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Oct 30, 2015 · We have looked at the familiar issues that led to Mrs Thatcher's resignation including the unpopularity of the poll tax, the divisions over Europe, the resignation of Geoffrey Howe, and the self ...
Oct 30, 2015 · We have looked at the familiar issues that led to Mrs Thatcher's resignation including the unpopularity of the poll tax, the divisions over Europe, the resignation of Geoffrey Howe, and the self ...
Oct 10, 2015 · First published on Sat 10 Oct 2015 07.36 EDT. The former Conservative chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe has died, aged 88, after a suspected heart attack, his family said on Saturday. Lord Howe was ...
Aug 6, 2015 · Geoffrey Howe: 'Their bats have been broken', Resignation speech - 1990. .1 November 1990, House of Commons, Westminster, United Kingdom. This speech was seen by many as a catalyst for Thatcher's own resignation, three weeks later. I find to my astonishment that a quarter of a century has passed since I last spoke from one of the Back Benches.
Oct 10, 2015 · Senior figures in British politics pay tribute to former Conservative chancellor Geoffrey Howe, who has died at the age of 88.
May 17, 2018 · Howe, Sir Geoffrey (1926– ) British statesman, chancellor of the exchequer (1979–83), foreign secretary (1983–89), deputy prime minister and leader of the House of Commons (1989–90). A leading figure in the Conservative cabinet of Margaret Thatcher, Howe made a damning resignation speech after Thatcher had voiced her hostility to the euro.
May 12, 2000 · Sir Geoffrey Howe savaged Margaret Thatcher's leadership and her policies in his resignation speech to the Commons on 13 November 1990. ... Mrs Thatcher was forced to resign. Sir Geoffrey revisits ...
