The Big Read: Batty captain, sticky wicket

16 March 2016 - 02:10
By Tony Leon

On November 13 1990, the former deputy prime minister of Great Britain, Geoffrey Howe, rocked the House of Commons in his quiet, measured and, this time, deadly way. He fired a rhetorical missile that destroyed the leadership of his party boss and three-term British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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