"[Following an interview or briefing with Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street] After she finished she took an extremely large scotch. Margaret had quite a capacity. [...] It was Tuesday at 5pm and her next engagement was her weekly audience with the Queen… The one person in the world of whom Margaret Thatcher was frightened was the Queen. That's why she downed a lot."
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The Battle of Orgreave occurred during the UK miners' strike (1984–85), a violent clash on 18 June 1984 between pickets and South Yorkshire Police. The story was not published because it would have incriminated the witnesses, Haviland said, who were Robert Fellowes, her Private Secretary and George Younger, the Scottish Secretary.
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Julian Haviland
1975 – 1981
Julian Arthur Charles Haviland (8 June 1930 – 11 August 2023) was a British journalist. He was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for over twenty years, and was the political editor of Independent Television News (1975–1981) and The Times newspaper (1981–1986).
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