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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 17h

🔍 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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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 22h

📘 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

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 22h

🙂 There's more information on The Legacy Paintings and how you can bid for them on the link below.

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THE LEGACY PAINTINGS — Lorna May Wadsworth Portraits

Striking portraits of the late Baroness Margaret Thatcher by Lorna May Wadsworth (b. 1979) are going on display at Noho Studios in London, commemorating the centenary of the former British Prime Minis...

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 22h

😊 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.

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 1d

🛒 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

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 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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Matt Mert Somcag @mertsomcag.bsky.social · 2d

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Margaret Thatcher: “Whatever Happened to the British Lion?”| We’ll Be With Europe, But Not Of It🇬🇧

YouTube video by The Soldier Media

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 2d

🛒 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

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 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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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 3d

💥 '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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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 4d

📘 You can order 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' on the link below.

#CPC25 #ConservativePartyConference #Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #IronLady #LadyT

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

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 4d

⭐️ 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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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 4d

💥 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'.

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 5d

👏🏻 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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Dr Nigel Fletcher @nigelfletcher.bsky.social · 5d

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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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 5d

👜 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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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 5d

⭐️ 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

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 6d

😊 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.

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 6d

🤩 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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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 6d

😊 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

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 7d

🎙 This podcast where Dr Ruth Fox, Mark D'Arcy, and I discuss ex-PMs in Parliament might be of interest.

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Hansard Society @hansardsociety.bsky.social · 9d

🎧 PODCAST - Former Prime Ministers: The role of Parliament in life after No 10

We talk to @expremiers.bsky.social about his new book on Margaret Thatcher's time after No 10, and about how other ex-PMs have spent their parliamentary afterlife.

Listen below🔽

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Parliament Matters: A podcast about the institution at the heart of our democracy

Join two of the UK’s leading parliamentary experts, Mark D’Arcy and Ruth Fox, as they guide you through the often mysterious ways our politicians do business and explore the running controversies…

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 7d

✍️🏻 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.

Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 7d

...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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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 7d

🤔 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....

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 7d

🤔 Surely she radicalised the dinner parties, rather than the other way round?

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Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · 7d

😍 We've only been to Manchester for work or Dame Shirley Bassey concerts.

🤔 How will #CPC25 compare to the latter?

📘 The Dame featuring in 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.

✍️🏻 Signed copies of which can be had at Stand 28 from 11am on Tuesday.

#Thatcher100