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Ben Monro-davies
The Fall of Thatcher - The Brighton Bomb
42 minutes Posted Mar 8, 2019 at 8:23 pm.
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John Wakeham was summoned at the last minute to try and save Margaret Thatcher's premiership. He was in charge of her campaign for six hours - long enough to learn she was doomed. His main job was to make sure she knew exactly how bad things were. It was a difficult task - given the friendship between them partly caused by the Brighton Bomb, which killed is wife Roberta.