Key Players - Key Facts

Question 1

Thatcher’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary

Answer 1

Willie Whitelaw

Question 2

Thatcher’s famous line at the 1981 Party Conference

Answer 2

You turn if you want to - the lady’s not for turning

Question 3

Names of other Conservative leadership candidates that were no longer viable options

Answer 3

• Enoch Powell
• Keith Joseph

Question 4

Thatcher’s first Chancellor of the Exchequer

Answer 4

Geoffry Howe

Question 5

Thatcher’s first Minister of Employment

Answer 5

Jim Prior

Question 6

Montetarist Conservative thinkers that Thatcher was influenced by

Answer 6

• Birch
• Thornecroft
• Powell

Question 7

Thatcher’s political soulmate

Answer 7

Airey Neave

Question 8

Position Jim Prior was demoted to in 1981

Answer 8

Northern Ireland Office

Question 9

Thatcher’s second Minister of Employment

Answer 9

Norman Tebbit

Question 10

Thatcher’s second Chancellor of the Exchequer

Answer 10

Nigel Lawson

Question 11

Name of the affair concerning favouring an American, over European deal, to save Britian’s last surviving military helicopter manufacturer

Answer 11

Westland Affair

Question 12

Person who resigned as a result of the Westland Affair

Answer 12

Michael Heseltine

Question 13

Name of Thatcher’s controversial economic advisor

Answer 13

Alan Walters

Question 14

Person who was demoted from the Foreign Office in 1990

Answer 14

Geoffrey Howe

Question 15

Thatcher’s controversial tax

Answer 15

Poll Tax

Question 16

Place where poll tax was first tried

Answer 16

Scotland

Question 17

First ballot of voting for the 1990 leadership race

Answer 17

• Thatcher - 204 votes
• Heseltine - 152 votes

Question 18

Date of Thatcher’s resignation

Answer 18

22 November 1990