We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis.


As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations (ed. Robson Book Ltd, 1997)


We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people -...

We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people -...

We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people -...

We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people -...