She was at her very best [during the war]. She showed great courage and great determination. The circumstances were very difficult. She sought selection for the Teignbridge parliamentary candidacy of 2005 won by Stanley Johnson. [8] David Cameron wanted her to stand for a parliamentary seat for the Conservative Party again in 2009. [5]

Of course I knew that we had some Royal Marines there, but I had to remind myself as to where the Falkland Islands were when the scrap merchants landed on South Georgia. Asked what the mood in Cabinet was as the news of victory came through, Lord Tebbit makes reference to more recent celebrations in Downing Street

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Swire, Sasha (11 October 2021). "Chips ahoy! In praise of Chips Channon's acerbic musings, by Sasha Swire". Tatler . Retrieved 16 October 2021. Much has been said and written of Thatcher’s steeliness after becoming a war leader, but there were moments when the doubt did show.

There was obviously many sighs of relief and a great sense of achievement,” says Lord Heseltine. “I mean, it was a remarkable achievement.” Swire's book, Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power, was published on 24 September 2020. It is Swire's diary of 20 years, [2] and contains insights into the private lives of Conservative politicians, [9] including David Cameron, George Osborne, Dominic Raab, Theresa May, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson. [1] It was serialised in The Times prior to its release. [10]a b Johnson, Rachel (26 April 2021). "2. Sasha Swire". Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women (Podcast). Global . Retrieved 29 April 2021. Nott’s autobiography, entitled ‘Here Today, Gone Tomorrow,’ suggests a series of fascinating facts about the Falklands War. Nott said: “I must confess that I wasn’t much aware of the Falkland Islands before the invasion. I had a huge globe in my room in the Ministry of Defence and I went over to it to rediscover the geographical position of the Falklands. I was a bit horrified to see how far away they were.” Nott's autobiography Here Today, Gone Tomorrow is a reference to the infamous interview conducted by Sir Robin Day in October 1982. Day asked Nott whether the public should believe the retiring MP's statements on defence cuts, since (Day thought) Nott was a "here today, gone tomorrow politician" (Nott had either recently announced or was shortly to announce that he would not stand at the next election). Nott then stood up, threw down his microphone, called the interview "ridiculous", and promptly walked off set. Descended from Devon gentry, Alexandra Nott is the only daughter of Sir John Nott, former Member of Parliament for St Ives and Secretary of State for Defence under Margaret Thatcher during the Falklands War, and his wife Miloska Vlahović, daughter of Yugoslav resistance leader Lujo Vlahović, of Slovenian extraction. [4]