Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll

Author:Rory Carroll [Carroll, Rory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

While senior officers and officials discussed her accommodation, and how to get her back to London, Thatcher tapped her fingers on the desk. Then she snapped. “Gentlemen, I have sat here listening to this discussion for some time and a decision needs to be made. I do not mind where you take me but there is one clear instruction. You must have me back at the conference center by 9 a.m. Is that understood?”

A ghastly realization struck her listeners. The woman intended to go on. An unprecedented attack on the British government, casualties unknown, the promenade a war zone, and she wanted to resume the conference.

Just before 4:00 a.m., Thatcher emerged from the police station to a media scrum. Ignoring bodyguards’ attempts to shoo her into a car, she gave an impromptu press conference, TV camera lights illuminating the darkness. She described hearing the bomb and her escape from the Grand. “You hear about these atrocities, these bombs, you don’t expect them to happen to you. But life must go on, as usual,” she said.

“And the conference will go on?” asked the BBC’s political correspondent, John Cole.

“The conference will go on,” Thatcher said. “The conference will go on, as usual.”

The bodyguards exhaled when she climbed into the car, only to see her climb out again to ask Cole if he needed another take. An hour after being almost being murdered, Thatcher wanted to get the sound bite just right. Her survival was not enough. She wanted to deny the IRA even the satisfaction of halting the conference. Her speech was to go ahead, on schedule.

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