Peter Just
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Peter Just posting about UK former prime ministers. Author of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life after Downing Street' - coming via @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social in July 2025. #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #ExPremiers #AfterDowningStreet
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🧵 What do Prime Ministers do once out of office?

🚨 It's often not what you think.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' explodes the myths that have surrounded her ex-premiership.

🔍 It also provides a framework in which to study the Office of Former Prime Minister.

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A book cover featuring an image of Margaret Thatcher. It reads, 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street', Peter Just. There is a quote from Andrew Roberts,  'A joy to read'.
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📘 You can get 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' from your local bookshop or order it below.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #LadyT #IronLady #Myth #Legend

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Margaret Thatcher
The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...
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💥 REVEALED: the untold story of Margaret Thatcher and Danny La Rue.

📰 As covered in Andrew Pierce's Daily Mail column today!

📘 Get your copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' to find out more.

#Thatcher100 #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher

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ANDREW PIERCE: Danny La Rue? He had Maggie down to a T...
Margaret Thatcher , who would be 100 today, was the target of many impersonators over the years. There was Janet Brown's eerily accurate impression.
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🔍 More research for my @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social and @andrewcrines.bsky.social piece on 'The Ghosts of Statecraft Past: Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and former Prime Ministers'.

😬 Not forgetting Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron, and Theresa May.

😱 We repeat: poor Rishi Sunak!

#ExPremiers
Boris Johnson's  book, 'Unleashed', Simon Hart's 'Ungovernable', Liz Truss' 'Ten Years To Save The West', and Graham Brady's 'Kingmaker'.
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📘 You can get 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' from your local bookshop or order it on the link below.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #LadyT #IronLady #Myth #Legend

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Margaret Thatcher
The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...
www.bitebackpublishing.com
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😊 Delighted to meet Lorna May Wadsworth yesterday and see her fantastic 'An Iron Lady The Legacy Paintings'!

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' features Lorna's original portrait of Lady Thatcher, so I was especially delighted to see a version of it.

#Thatcher100 #IronLady

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A man and a woman smiling next to a portrait of Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth. Two paintings of Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth. Seven paintings of Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth. Seven paintings of Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth.
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🛒 You can get 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' from your local bookshop or order it on the link below.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #LadyT #IronLady #Myth #Legend

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www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
Margaret Thatcher
The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...
www.bitebackpublishing.com
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🚨 Another #SophieSpecial on #ThatcherAfterDowningStreetOnTour today!

🌎 Sophie's taken 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' across Birmingham to:

1⃣ Moseley
2⃣ Hall Green
3⃣ Sea Life
4⃣ Cadbury World

🙏🏻 Thanks, Sophie!

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #IronLady #MargaretThatcher

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A girl holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' under a sign for Moseley. A girl holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' under a sign for Hall Green. A girl holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' outside Sea Life in Birmingham. A girl holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' outside Cadbury World in Birmingham.
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🛒 You can get 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' from your local bookshop or order it on the link below.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #LadyT #IronLady #Myth #Legend

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www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...
Margaret Thatcher
The story of Margaret Thatcher’s post-premiership years is a tale of high drama and low farce, with, at its heart, one extraordinary woman. Margaret Thatcher enjoyed perhaps one of the most cons...
www.bitebackpublishing.com
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🚨 One last #CPC25 themed post.

📰 Margaret Thatcher's 1992, 1993, and 1998 conference visits generated @privateeyenews.bsky.social covers.

🌟 They demonstrated her enduring ability to grab the headlines and cause carnage.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' has more!

#Thatcher100

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A Private Eye cover from 1992. The headline is 'Tory Conference show of unity'. John Major is speaking to Margaret Thatcher. Out of Major's mouth is a speech bubble with the words 'Hello Margaret'. A speech bubble out of Lady Thatcher's mouth has the words 'Goodbye John.' A Private Eye cover from 1993. The headline is 'Conference unity special'. On of a speech bubble from a telephone are the words 'It's time to make things up.' On of a speech bubble from Margaret Thatcher's mouth are the words, 'All right, John, I'll say I support you.' A Private Eye cover from 1998. It is headlined, 'Hague speech lifts Tories'. Edward Heath is sat behind Margaret Thatcher. They are both looking at their watches. Out of their mouths there is a speech bubble. The words are, 'He's even worse than you.'
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💥 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' is now officially 'As seen on TV'!

📘 Wonderful to see the book feature in this Sky News piece.

🛒 You can order your copy here: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher100 #CPC25 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher

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Can Kemi Badenoch be the new Margaret Thatcher?
From a Margaret Thatcher photo collage to cardboard cutouts of the former prime minister, Kemi Badenoch had references to the Iron Lady all over the Conservative Party conference.
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⭐️ With Margaret Thatcher's triumphant appearances at the #CPC25 drawing to a close, here she is, the last one standing.

💫 Immortal and invincible, herself alone.

📘 For more on her at party conferences from 1991-2000 order 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.

#Thatcher100 #CPC25
A mosaic of Margaret Thatcher stood next to a cardboard cut-out of her.
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💥 It's the final day of the Conservative Party Conference!

😔 But don't despair!

👍🏻 There's still time for you to get a signed copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.

📘 Head down to Stand 28 to pick up yours.

#CPC25 #Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
A man smiling as he signs a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'. A man signing a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.
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👏🏻 Totally brilliant - and genius - marketing at the #CPC25 today.

📘 Signed copies of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' are now available to buy.

#ConservativePartyConference #Thatcher #Thatcher100 #MargaretThatcher #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet
A book by Michael Heseltine next to a book about Margaret Thatcher.
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Delighted to catch up with Peter Just (@expremiers.bsky.social)
during the book signing for his fascinating new book “Margaret Thatcher- life after Downing Street” here at #CPC25 in Manchester. The conference has a strong Thatcher theme, marking the centenary of the former PM’s birth this month.
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👜 Another #ConservativePartyConference another Margaret Thatcher tote bag.

1️⃣ On the left from #CPC25 courtesy of the Conservative Environment Network.
2️⃣ On the right from a previous conference courtesy of @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #IronLady
Two tote bags featuring Margaret Thatcher.
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⭐️ Margaret Thatcher's the star of #CPC25 - as she was at the 1991-2000 conferences.

💥If you want know why, even now, she's still big, come to Stand 28 at 11am TODAY to get your signed copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'!

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #IronLady #MargaretThatcher
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😊 Great to see 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' on display.

📘 It's on sale throughout #CPC25 at Stand 28.

✍🏻 Come along tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11am to get your copy!

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #CPC25 #IronLady
A man holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'. A schedule of book signings at the Conservative Party Conference. A collection of books at the Conservative Party Conference. A collection of books at the Conservative Party Conference.
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🤩 Delighted to meet the outfit with which the story of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' begins at #CPC25 this morning.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet
A man holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' next to the outfit Margaret Thatcher wore on the day of her resignation.
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😊 Great to see 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' on display.

📘 It's on sale throughout #CPC25 at Stand 28.

✍🏻 Come along tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11am to get your copy!

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #AfterDowningStreet #CPC25 #IronLady
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🎙 This podcast where Dr Ruth Fox, Mark D'Arcy, and I discuss ex-PMs in Parliament might be of interest.

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✍️🏻 Indeed, but until The National Archives' files are opened, it would be a very incomplete study.

🚨 Interestinng on the Lords! I think it's a great pity that John Major and Gordon Brown at the very least no longer have a parliamentary presence.
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...He should start appearing in The National Archives' files as an ex-premier soon, so it will be interesting to see how he compares to others, including Margaret Thatcher. Maybe one day I'll write, 'Tony Blair: Life After Downing Street'. Who do you think?
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🤔 A good question. Having studied ex-PMs for 35 years, I think he's one of the most fascinating, if not the most. He left office under a cloud, didn't he, his legacy not really settled then didn't help his reputation with his business/political dealings....