Geoffrey Howe’s resignation: the speech that began Thatcher's downfall – video

Geoffrey Howe: 'Their bats have been broken', Resignation speech - 1990 — Speakola

"As long ago as 1962 he [MacMillan] argued that we had to place and keep ourselves within the European Community. He saw it as essential then as it is today. Not to cut ourselves off from the realities of power, not to retreat into a ghetto of sentimentality about our past and so diminish our own control over our own destiny in the future..." In November 1990 Sir Geoffrey Howe resigned his post as Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Thatcher. He was the last remaining member o

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