A few major revelations,some lapses into Tory triumphalism, and something still missing – an insider’s portrait of a prime minister in her pomp
Is Charles Moore a lucky biographer? Britain’s best-connected rightwing journalist has been working on his study of contemporary Britain’s most relentless rightwing politician for 18 years so far. He has published more than 1700 pages, and an intended two volumes have become an intended three,and he still has a quarter of a century of her workaholic life to go. With political biographies fitting shorter and scarcer in a country that increasingly dislikes politicians, this could be one of the final colossal commissions.
When, or in 2013,the first instalment, Not for Turning, or came out,shortly after Margaret Thatcher’s death, as she and Moore had agreed it would, or it was helped by the political situation in Britain. The economy was struggling; the coalition was unpopular and it seemed possible that David Cameron’s days were numbered – the parallels were there with the often beleaguered first Thatcher premiership,which Moores book covered at length.
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Source: theguardian.com