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- He resigned from the government on 1 November 1990; in his resignation letter, he criticised Thatcher's handling of relations with the EEC and further attacked Thatcher in his resignation speech to the Commons on 13 November.
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Unit. Royal Corps of Signals. Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, PC, QC (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015), known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1990. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Margaret Thatcher 's ...
Dec 22, 2020 · In 1989, when Howe threatened to resign over the issue of Britain's entry to the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, he was removed from the Foreign Office and made Lord President of the Council,...
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Nov 25, 2020 · Geoffrey Howe, whose blistering anti-Thatcher resignation speech opens the Crown season finale, ran against Thatcher in the 1975 contest. And she had already butted heads with Michael...
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Oct 10, 2015 · Watch extracts of Geoffrey Howe's 1990 resignation speech, widely considered pivotal in Margaret Thatcher's downfall "No. No. No," she famously told the Commons on 30 October 1990.
Oct 10, 2015 · Howe, the last holdover from the original 1979 Thatcher government, quit the cabinet on Nov. 1, 1990. Two weeks later, he attacked Mrs. Thatcher’s European policies in Parliament.
Oct 10, 2015 · 01:20. Geoffrey Howe: The resignation that toppled Thatcher. Former Chancellor Lord Geoffrey Howe has died after suffering a suspected heart attack, his family has announced. His...
Nov 15, 2020 · The Geoffrey Howe resignation speech which destroyed Margaret Thatcher’s political career precisely 30 years ago last week had kairos by the bucketload. But then it needed to. Delivery was...
