Margaret Thatcher Resignation Speech Transcript
I do so with very great regret.
Margaret thatcher resignation speech transcript. The remainder are listed without a text because sometimes no record survives or copyright prevents reproduction on the site. How newsnight reported the end of a titanic parliamentary era subscribe to get our latest videos httpbbcin1ioum. Almost sixteen years have passed since you asked me to serve as shadow chancellor.
I shall do my best to be brief and i hope that the house will assist me in this. In my letter of resignation which i tendered with the utmost sadness and dismay i said. And you do not accept that the other resignations from your government or the other sackings from your government have arisen because you cannot handle strong men because you like strong men and you like argument.
Hansard i am old fashioned enough to believe that my first comment on recent events should be made to this house. Since then we have done so much together against the odds to rebuild the economic and political strength of our nation. Where copyright is the problem the full text can be found on the complete public statements of margaret thatcher on cd rom 1945 90 edited christopher collins oxford university press 1998 2000.
That was my commitment to government by persuasionpersuading colleagues and the nation. This is not an easy speech for me to make and i am sure that the house will understand that. You do not accept blame for the resignation of the chancellor of the exchequer you do not know why he resigned he is to tell me himself you can offer no guidance on that.
On november 1 he had resigned as the deputy prime minister over differences with margaret thatcher towards europe. Ladies and gentlemen were leaving downing street for the last time after eleven and a half wonderful years and were very happy that we leave the united kingdom in a very very much better state than when we came here eleven and a half years ago. Sir geoffrey howe gave his iconic resignation statement on november 13 1990.
Resignation speech lyrics i find to my astonishment that a quarter of a century has passed since i last spoke from one of the back benches.