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To be quite so desperate, quite so early, in the pre-referendum campaign as the In campaigners must be to wheel out Lord Powell of Bayswater with his proxy, post-humous Thatcher endorsement is not a good sign for them. Charles Powell even suggests of David Cameron’s package that Mrs Thatcher “would have gone along with what is on offer, indeed negotiated something similar herself”.
I would find this assertion astonishing had Charles not got form on the subject. At the time of the bitterly fought Maastricht Treaty and later,
he insisted that Margaret Thatcher would have eventually signed up to it – with opt outs – as her successor John Major did. She, herself, vigorously and consistently denied that she would have done so. As I show in discussion of the matter in my biography of her, the documentary and other evidence is overwhelming that she was correct in saying this.
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