Downing Street Years - Margaret Thatcher [561]
Peter the Great, Tsar, 477
picketing, 99–100, 107–8, 345–6, 348, 351–3
Pienaar, Louis Alexander, 528
Plaza Agreement (1985), 694, 783
Pöhl, Karl Otto (President of the Bundesbank 1980–91), 708, 740–1
Poland: crisis (1981) 251–6; MT’s visit (1988), 777–82; elections (1989), 789; border with Germany, 797, 799
Polaris, 244, 517
police: pay, 32; dealing with picketing, 100, 345–6; riots, 144–5, 147; equipment, 145; miners’ strike (1984–5), 345–6, 347–9, 352–3; increased numbers, 626; Trafalgar Square riot (1990), 661
Police Act (1964), 347
Police and Criminal Evidence Bill, 290
Policy Unit, see under Downing Street
polls, see opinion polls
poll tax, see community charge
pollution: issue, 563; atmospheric, 639
Pol Pot, 506
Ponsonby, Amanda, 715
Popieluszko, Father Jerzy, 780
Popov, Gavriil, 804–5
Portillo, Michael, 855, 856
Port Talbot Steel Works, 351
Portugal, EC membership, 545–6
Post Office, 680
poverty, 627, 646
Poverty Trap Policy Group, 282
Powell, Sir Charles (Private Secretary to the Prime Minister 1984–91): Gorbachev visit, 461; nuclear strategy discussions, 473; Kohl conversations, 557, 748; Deidesheim visit, 747–8; Gulf crisis, 816–17, 820; leadership election, 843–4; MT’s resignation, 856
Powell, General Colin, 827
Powell, Enoch, 184, 386, 437
Prem Chand, General, 528, 529
prescription charges, 50
Press Association, 103
Prevention of Terrorism Act, 415
Price, Charles (US Ambassador to UK 1983–89), 380
Price Commission, 33, 39
Primakov, Yevgeny, 826–7
Prime Minister’s Question Time, 41, 560, 704, 716, 833, 858
Prior, James (Employment Secretary 1979–81, Northern Ireland Secretary 1981–84): Employment, 28, 40; trade union relations, 28, 40; public spending cuts, 54; pay talks suggestion, 94; trade union reform plans, 98–100, 104–5, 107–8, 150, 273; steel strike, 111; criticisms, 111, 130; coal dispute, 142; Northern Ireland Secretary, 151, 394, 396; Anglo-Irish proposals, 394; resignation, 399; GEC chairman, 431
prisons, increase in places, 626
Private Eye, 22
Private Office, see under Downing Street
privatization, 676–80; Conservative policy, 7, 672; receipts, 49; programme, 305–6, 563, 672; utilities, 680–5; future plans, 685–7
Privy Council, 29n
productivity, 92–3, 272, 668
Property Services Agency, 55
Prout, Sir Christopher, 749
Public Expenditure White Paper (1980–1), 52
public sector: uncontrolled, 6, 32; workforce size, 45–6; insatiable, 124
Public Sector Borrowing Requirement (PSBR), 31, 42, 50, 95, 126–8, 673–4; arguments about, 52–5, 124, 132–6; errors in predicting, 315–16, 699, 700
public spending, 49–56; Cabinet arguments, 123–9, 147–50; cuts or savings (1983), 315–16; Scottish, 619–20; levels, 676
Pugo, Boris, 802
Pym, Francis (Defence Secretary 1979–81, Leader HC 1981–82, Foreign Secretary 1982–83): Chequers lunch, 37; Defence, 123; Leader of House, 131; government information, 131, 149; economic forecast, 149–50; Foreign Secretary, 186–7; War Cabinet, 188; Haig negotiations, 192, 196, 199, 200, 204, 205–8, 210–11; Falklands, 193, 214; US/Peruvian peace plan, 217, 220; Falklands final proposals, 222, 224; Trident, 246; NATO, 249; election campaign (1983), 293, 294; return to backbenches, 306–7; Centre Forward, 416
Qaboos bin Said, Sultan, 163
Qatar, MT’s visit (1981), 164
QE2, 215, 228
Quayle, Dan (US Vice-President 1981–93), 782, 820
Question Time, 294
Rabin, Yitzhak (Israeli Prime Minister 1974–77, 1992-), 511
Rajk, Laszlo, 454
Rakowski, Mieczyslaw, 779
Ramphal, Sir Sonny (Commonwealth Secretary-General 1975–90), 76, 517
Rand Afrikaans University speech (1991), 599n
Rapid Deployment Force (RDF), 162
Rapier Air Defence Systems, 246
Rashid bin Said al-Maktum, Sheik, 163
rate-capping, 284, 644
rates, 644–5, 650–1
Rate Support Grant, 646
Ravenscraig steel works, 361–2, 622
Rayner, Sir Derek (Prime Minister’s Adviser on Efficiency in Government 1979–83), 30–1
Reagan, Nancy, 160,