People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me

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The Cost of Living Crisis Byline Times investigates the causes and consequences of Britain’s biggest recession for 30 years Anderson successfully shows glimpses of the vulnerability beneath the armour of her trademark hair, tailored clothes, pearls and make-up. “We are confident,” she says to herself doubtfully in front of the mirror, as she emerges to become Britain’s first female Prime Minister. And the other thing was, this was her life. One of the things that happens to women is they fight to get to the top of their profession. To be taken seriously, they have to be better than the men. There’s a famous saying, ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ and of course strong communities do a lot more, besides. When it comes to prevention – helping people lead happy lives as well as giving support when needed – the places we live in, or what I call social infrastructure, have a vital role. I left about a year early to concentrate on writing – it was at the time of the financial crisis in 2008. I’d had my first book The Sky Blue Parcel – a financial thriller featuring a high-flying early-thirties Treasury civil servant, Jane Charles – published. That had gone quite well and people found the setting particularly authentic.”

John later had a major hand in trying to make the best out of the pensions tangle that followed the death at sea of tycoon Robert Maxwell. “When the Maxwell occupational pension schemes got into trouble after Robert Maxwell’s mysterious death in 1991 the Government established a special arm’s-length organisation to act as an honest broker between the parties to see if enough money could be found to ensure all the Maxwell pensioners had their pensions paid. Argument Honestly held opinions and provocative argument based on current events or our recent reports. It will be the former chancellor’s first performance at the dispatch box since he quit in a row with Johnson and Dominic Cummings in February 2020.

We fell in love talking about civil service reform! (Truly)

In the wider public service and voluntary sector, she was the Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission between 2002 and 2007, a statutory body which promoted equal opportunities between men and women; and then moved on to become Chief Executive of Refugee and Migrant Justice, a not for profit organisation providing legal advice to asylum seekers, between 2007 and 2010. One said the video monitoring was “utterly unacceptable” while a second said malicious people had bugged the health secretary’s office and were snooping on him. When I had completed my degree I did a bit of labouring in the RAF at Cardington, with the vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, and I got elected as a shop steward.

Caroline was the first ever woman Private Secretary in No 10, serving both Margaret Thatcher and John Major and working closely with them in their inner office. She was the only other woman in the room when Margaret Thatcher resigned.Much more than meets the eye in this book – really interesting on women and power in the present day as well as Thatcher and her time. Mishal Husain She is currently the Chair of Breast Cancer Now, created from the merger of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Campaign, Deputy Chair of the Canal and River Trust and Chair of Bwrdd Gland?r Cymru (CRT in Wales); founder of Public Benefit; and until recently a non-executive Director of Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust. She also recentlyacted as Chair of the Commission to the Voluntary Sector and Ageing, Caroline began when “you could see these rifts developing on Europe”. The Chancellor and the Foreign Secretary, Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe, were key figures at odds with the PM. The poll tax hadn’t helped, and there was friction over the UK joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. Something had to give. She has received a number of national awards and honours for her work in social care, in bringing health and social care together and for her innovative approach to building partnerships between the different sectors. She is a frequent broadcaster, speaker and writer on the voluntary and community sector. The contractual relationship between government and many charities for the delivery of services that started under Labour has contributed to a view that charities should not criticise the state.