Tag: Margaret Thatcher

19th April 2013

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by Paul Johnston

Ambassador to Ireland

A memory of Lady Thatcher

As I prepared for an interview on ExpressenTV on the night of Lady Thatcher’s funeral, I read through the entries in the Embassy’s condolence book. Many Ambassadors, representing countries from across the world had come to the Embassy to pay their tributes, as had members of the British community and Swedish citizens. What struck me […]

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11th April 2013 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

The death of an important British political figure

Lady Margaret Thatcher

Earlier this week, we were waiting for the arrival of David Cameron here in Paris, on what was going to be his first visit to President Hollande in the Elysée, when we had the sad news of Baroness Thatcher’s death. And David Cameron decided he had to go home straight away from Madrid, to get […]

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10th April 2013

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by Paul Madden

British Ambassador to Japan

Down a coal mine

By a strange coincidence, I found myself down a coal mine on the day Margaret Thatcher died. The 1984-5 miners’ strike had been one of the many significant events of her premiership. There has been massive coverage of her death in the Australian media and comments from across the political spectrum paying tribute to Lady […]

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2nd February 2012 Washington DC, USA

by Peter Westmacott

Former Ambassador to the United States of America

A Pivotal Period in Britain’s History

It has been a whirlwind three weeks since my arrival in Washington. I’ve visited the White House to present my credentials to President Obama and watched from the House gallery as he delivered his State of the Union address. I’ve travelled outside of D.C., seeing the South Carolina Republican primary at first-hand and meeting with […]

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