gorbachev and thatcher find common ground.hatcher immediately flies out to make the case to reagan. [camera shutters click] [susan eisenhower] imagine, in 1983 ronald reagan said that the soviet union was an evil empire. and then margaret thatcher says to mikhail gorbachev this is a man she can do business with. what an extraordinary shift. and, of course, ronald reagan was not only an admirer and a friend of margaret thatcher, but he really respected her viewpoint on this. and she gave him some political cover to begin to look at the changes that were underway in the soviet union and take them more seriously. [narrator] while chernenko is leader, full dialogue with the soviets remains a long way off. her approval of gorbachev legitimizes reagan's desire to approach the soviet leadership himself. and he is intrigued by her very well-informed insights. but the cia wants to know exactly who is keeping the british one step ahead. [bianna] the cia had this "we are holier than thou" position, and thus have the right to have access

how could thatcher do that?" good evening. there must be a lot of table pounding going on in the inner offices of the kremlin tonight. the soviets are caught in a major embarrassing setback in their spy operations. the head of the soviet kgb in london has defected, and he brought a lot of names with him. so today, the british kicked out 25 soviets. [man] i'm afraid he's not in this afternoon. [reporter] all over london, the soviets to be expelled dropped out of sight, and their co-workers lost their charm. [man] it's none of your business. [reporter] and it's only the beginning of the shock waves from the defection of oleg gordievsky. married, 46 years old, a soviet spy since 1962. [alexander] the fear that he had managed to escape, it was obviously a major failure for the kgb. it was a disaster. um... [sniffles] well, in my opinion, gordievsky was a traitor and a scumbag. he's a very good spin doctor. a spin doctor of himself. it's treason. it's high treason. you betray your country. you betray your people. you betray your fe

[ken] ronald reagan met maggie thatcher, and was amazed that they thought alike. prime minister thatcher really did, despite her uptight bearing and her hairdo, really loved to be with ronald reagan. there was a certain magnetism. there was a certain glory to him. and she felt that tingling. [applause] [reagan] my lord chancellor, speaking for all americans, i want to say how very much at home we feel in your house. [ken] ronald reagan said that soviet communism will lie, cheat and steal to advance its mission around the world. that was the idea that ronald reagan had to delegitimize the soviet union. the decay of the soviet experiment should come as no surprise to us. we see totalitarian forces in the world who seeks subversion and conflict around the globe to further their barbarous assault on the human spirit. [ken] even before he became president, ronald reagan said, "the cold war will end, and i know how it's gonna end. we win, and they lose." [narrator] and he's about to ramp up the rhetoric even further. the march of freedom and democracy will leave marxism

his role in the successful meeting between prime minister thatcher and gorbachev gets the attention of his russian bosses. [alexander] as a matter of fact, mikhail gorbachev expressed his personal appreciation of what gordievsky had done with his report. [sir david omand] shortly thereafter, the moscow center chose gordievsky to be the head of the kgb station in london. from their point of view, he was clearly good at his job. mi6 is effectively running the head of the kgb station in london. an extraordinary situation. this is too good to be true. [narrator] but this triumph puts gordievsky in a dangerous spotlight. i used to know several guys who worked as spies in london. i think some officers were jealous, no doubt about it. [narrator] especially gordievsky's immediate superior at the kgb station, leonid nikitenko. [alexander] nikitenko was the head of the counterintelligence line in the london station. he was number two, and he had obviously more experience than gordievsky. [typewriter clacking] so it would have been natural if he had got that job. it was the job of nikitenko to be

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former aide to margaret thatcher, nile gardiner . he goes thatcher, nile gardiner.l ex adviser, charlie . this is patrick christys gb news. this is patrick christys. tonight with me. ben. leo. only on gb news. coming up in just a tick. after a surge in support for right wing parties. sent shockwaves through europe last night. will the uk buck the trend by electing a left wing labour government? but first, should nigel farage be welcomed into the conservative party? it's time now for the head to head. and as rishi sunak attempts to move on from the backlash to skipping a d—day commemoration event last week, his former home secretary suella braverman has urged the tories to unite the right and embrace nigel farage. speaking to the times, braverman said i would welcome nigel into the conservative party. there's not much difference really, between him and many of the policies that we for . him and many of the policies that we for. stand him and many of the policies that we for . stand but speaking that we for. stand but speaking earlier today, nigel farage was quick to

he was one of the well— known wets who was seen as not loyal to margaret thatcher.ll, i think- a landslide is unlikely. i think landslides, - on the whole, don't produce successful governments. 1945 was the obvious one, - this massive landslide to labour. i think that was extremely . unfortunate, so i don't think that's likely to happen. well, a marvellous clip from 1983, and it's sad that we don't have politicians who speak in such fabulously clipped tones as that any more. just if you're happening upon us at 11:20 on radio 4, it is laura kuenssberg, paddy o'connell and adam fleming with newscast, which is normally a podcast on bbc sounds, but for the duration of the general election, we are fortunate to be with you on radio 4 every saturday morning. i hope you feel that you are fortunate to be with us, but that of course, is down to you, dear listener. and just let me pick up on francis pym. remember when you say, talking about how he spoke, he won the military cross in the second world war, he was not afraid to speak his mind. but after the 1983 election, what ha

margaret thatcher famously said she wasn't _ margaret thatcher famously said she wasn't for _ margaretusly said she wasn't for turning. you are obviously— wasn't for turning. you are obviously for turning. why the massive — obviously for turning. why the massive u—turn all of a sudden? this_ massive u—turn all of a sudden? this is— massive u—turn all of a sudden? this is the — massive u—turn all of a sudden? this is the old thing about hearts and heads, isn't it? i rationally thought this was too difficult. i have change my mind because i can't let down millions of people who would feel let down by me unless i was at the front and lead this charge over the course of the next five and a half years. a reform uk source says mr farag loves the theatre of it all and says he put himself centre stage at this election, but the worry for the conservatives is that he will divert votes away from them. mr farage, who had been named a chicken for not running, was also named the new reform uk leader. when the election was called, he had said it was too soon and he was also too busy with us politics.

i don't want people like margaret thatcher slapping my bottom. you don't question.en again, i'm an american. >> we didn't we didn't. we weren't taught to hate her by you people. >> there is that. she was always very well turned out. wasn't she? immaculate hair, wonderful brooches . brooches. >> she also grew up above a shop, and she learned how to treat people like. like our mark. whatever it is. >> she was a chemist and a chemist. yeah, and she invented mr whippy ice cream. well worked in the development of the, like, emulsifier or something like that. emulsifier or something like that . my version emulsifier or something like that. my version is emulsifier or something like that . my version is better. that. my version is better. let's stick with that one. okay, so the time's next, and, we find out the best time for women to take up mma formula one and other challenging tasks like deaung other challenging tasks like dealing with lewis schaffer when is that best time, well, in for some of those never would be my advice, but women's reaction times in prove during th

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you worked for margaret thatcher? of course . margaret thatcher? of course.margaret thatcher have done had this kind of shenanigans been happening on her watch? >> well, i just don't think this kind of shenanigans would have been happening on her watch . been happening on her watch. >> you know, people were very, very focused. you know, the tone is set from the top and people were very, very focused on the job and they knew that all eyes were on, you know, were on us. everyone who worked at number 10 and around the prime minister, you know , parliamentary private you know, parliamentary private secretaries being one of them. and, i just can't really believe that this has happened. you know , i think it's speaks to the fact that that the tory party has lost its sort of ethical heart . and i think the big issue heart. and i think the big issue for the election and the reason why the tories are finding it hard to shift in the polls, is that people just don't trust them. they don't trust them to tell the truth. they don't trust them to play by the rules that them

and we a the party of margaret thatcher and niger, , a party unlikely with the police in sound money.xpece are fully funded.n taxation by controlling the unsustainable rise in working age welfare that has taken off since the pandemic. and this party we believe that s those who can work do work. is rewardd with people being able to keep more of their money so we will ensure that we have lower welfare so that we■9 [applause] and as conservatives we believe hard work shouldn't be taxed twice. that's unfair. that's why chair beatty has contribution. our national insurance tax cuts already worth 900 pounds to the average worker, and we will keep cutting taxes in the coming years meaning by 2027th we will have haven't national interest to 6% picked up his attacks get t friends friends come worth 1300 pounds to the average worker. [applause] making m prooress towards our long-term ambitions we have abolished the work when it is economically responsible to do so. i also to say something about the self-employed because they are the risktakers, the people who get our economy growing. they embod

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thatcher, letters from mrs. thatcher, letters from mrs.vil partnership . russell and i civil partnership. russell and i have a signed photograph from mrs. thatcher wishing us up the very best. so anyway, kevin was a bit horrified to see the thatcher, icon in the in the study, even more horrified when i locked him and i said, kevin, it was five to midnight. i said, at midnight, the ghost of baroness thatcher emerges in the room and she will be there. and he within three minutes. what a wuss . she's banging it on the wuss. she's banging it on the d00h wuss. she's banging it on the door. let me out, let me out! we didn't let him out for 20 minutes. >> you'll come round eventually. i'm not giving up on you. you must never give up. and, there's always . well, i think i think always. well, i think i think the angels sing. when a sinner turns . i the angels sing. when a sinner turns. i think redemption comes of giving, not giving up on you. >> i talk of giving up. i think rishi sunak has given up. >> hello. well are you embarrassed to be on the r

if you look at my book, the section on margaret thatcher, margaret thatcher was extremely dominant inprivate office at number 10, people like charles powell and bernard ingham, who were very robust in defending her argument , in making sure the rest of whitehall understood what she wanted to do and her agenda was delivered. now, that doesn't seem to me like the civil service taking control of policy as far as i can see. >>— as far as i can see. >> although when we look back to the referendum campaign and the aftermath of brexit, we know, for instance , that the foreign for instance, that the foreign office and the mandarins there were disgusted by this result. >> well, i agree with that. and, so they're not impartial then? no.andi so they're not impartial then? no. and i suspect that the head of the, the foreign office, who made comment on the way in which he voted in the, yes, referendum, probably regrets either doing that. >> that was lord mcdonald, who was then the head of the fco. he disclosed to colleagues that he voted remain in the brexit referendum , doesn't that blow referend

i don't see it. >> we have to go. >> we have to go. >> thatcher, promote thatcher. >> thatcher, promoteader then? he's a right now. he's a right leader. talk. it's nonsense. nonsense. >> stop stop stop stop! blimey. right. for all the best analysis and opinion on that, even better than these two, go to our website, which is gb news. com. now, let's, go back up to manchester to find out what's happening at the airport with all flights from terminals one and two were cancelled until further notice, passengers due to travel from those terminals are advised not to go to the airport because of the power outage this morning, our gb news reporter jack carson joins me now from manchester airport to bnng now from manchester airport to bring us up to date on this story. jack, how's it going up there? what's happening ? there? what's happening? >> well, certainly what we've noficedin >> well, certainly what we've noticed in the last hour since we've been here, dawn, is just how quiet now the end of this runway is. of course , we've been runway is. of course, we've been here this afternoon, had quit

thatcherism. he doesn't.tician incapable of adjusting to the new age. >> he raises a point, doesn't he? because we know what labour won't tax. they won't tax working people whatever that means. but in order to pay for their spending. >> no idea what that means. >> no idea what that means. >> well, does it mean millionaires? because presumably they work ? they work? >> well, some do, and some are rentiers who just make a lot of money out of property and not doing anything. >> but you do understand that people are wondering what labour are going to do to afford their spending pledges. they'll have to tax something. >> one of the gifts of rishi sunakis >> one of the gifts of rishi sunak is that he's left a space where labour really doesn't have to say too much at all because of the incredibly hopeless nature. >> you're shaking your head at that mark of this government, despair. >> no, i despair because if the best that you can do is to not inspire by just saying nothing, thatis inspire by just saying nothing, th

margaret thatcher famously said she wasn't for turning. you are obviously for turning.ve u—turn all of a sudden? this is the old thing about hearts and heads, isn't it? i rationally thought this was too difficult. i have change my mind because i can't let down millions of people who would feel let down by me unless i was at the front and led this charge over the course of the next five and a half years. a reform uk source says mr farag loves the theatre of it all and says he put himself centre stage at this election, but the worry for the conservatives is that he will divert votes away from them. mr farage, who had been called a chicken for not running, was also announced as the new reform uk leader. unlike other parties, without any sort of vote. when the election was called, he had said it was too soon and he was also too busy with us politics. six weeks in such a short period of time to fight a parliamentary constituency and promote the cause around the country. and i think rishi sunak has wrong—footed an awful lot of people, myself included. nigel paul farage. he's

british commentator labeled reagan and thatcher as the lone ranger and the iron lady. a columnist in the sunday referred to him as old hopalong and said he needed to do some fast fence mending. they're talking about president of the united states in this incredibly dismissive way, and an awful lot of people at home in the united states thought. reagan was just a mere mouthpiece. frankly, at this point, i have thought that to he also faced a problem of low popularity at home. he began 1982 with less public support than president carter at a similar stage in his presidency. president carter was not very good at molding public support to have less than carter had had. that was not good at poll in april of 1982. found that 52% of the american people were opposed to reagan running for a second term. new york quoted a reagan adviser, a senior adviser who said, there's no question the guys in deep trouble. finally, reagan faced the barrier that the was complicated. reagan was saying that we to build up and in order to cut back our forces. that was a complicated message. he wa

and we are the party of margaret thatcher and niger a party unlikely with the police in sound money. so today's planrom jeremy and me for permanent reduction in taxation by contlling t unsustainable rise in working age welfare that has taken off since the pandemic. and thi it is morally right that those who can work and that hard work is rewarded with people being able to keep more of their own money so we will ensure that we have lower can deliver lower taxes. [applause] and as conservatives we believe hardor twice. that's unfair. thhy cutting national insurance contribution. our national insurance tax cutsal worker, and we will keep cutting taxes in the coming years meaning by 2027th we wi have haven't national interest to 6% picked up attacks get to my friends friends come worth 1300 pounds to the average worker. [applause]frng more progress towards our long-term ambitions we have abolhed the double taxation work when it is economically responsible to do so. i also tong about the self-employed because they are the risktakers, the people who get our economy growing. they embody the

thatcher. that's the problem.ies have moved so far from those heady days that they've actually committed suicide. and, yes. i don't think nigel will destroy the conservative party they've done a very good job of that for themselves. of course , all he's themselves. of course, all he's doing is filling the void that they've left because they've alienated and deliberately condescended to their own natural support base. the big problem is david cameron, when he became the tory leader, styled himself as the heir to blair. and they've stuffed the candidatures in constituencies with blairites ever since . with blairites ever since. they're still doing it today, even when they stare into the abyss , they're still putting abyss, they're still putting spads and insiders into what used to be very safe conservative seats , so that conservative seats, so that after the election and the complete cataclysm , the tory complete cataclysm, the tory party will never change. so of course, in one sense, i think nigel is absolutely ri

let's have a look at what margaret thatcher once had to say about such ideas back in 1990. >> but what'sber is saying is that he will rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich. that way you will never create the wealth for better social services. as we have. and what a policy! yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided the rich were legit . provided the rich were legit. >> margaret thatcher there at her last outing at the despatch box as prime minister, speaking to a rather younger simon hughes . but joining me now is the senior online editor of the new statesman magazine, george eaton, as well as my panel, lord goodman and nigel nelson, george, this is an interesting element of labour's manifesto. not many people have picked it up , but it does perhaps suggest up, but it does perhaps suggest that keir starmer is not exactly tony blair. yes, i've called him a quiet radical. >> and because, labour's campaign strategy has b been to appear impeccably moderate. but by any measure, the manifesto is to the left not just of new labour but of the manifesto. ed miliba

mi6 argue for the rescue the final decision is elevated to the very top very unusually, margaret thatcher was moral at that moment because normally she went in september the principal private sector in the foreign affairs had to go up to belmore almost force his way in to sima what was at stake was two things one was the human feeling of the risks to this person who had served the uk so well the other was the damage that will be done to british relations with the soviet union prime minister thatcher now holds gordy of skis fate in her hands secret and spies and nuclear game. the finale airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern and pacific thanks everyone for joining me today. >> i'm alison camp radha, and cnn newsroom continues with omar jimenez right now welcome everyone. >> you're in the cnn newsroom. i'm omar jimenez and walk washington. we are counting down to cnn's presidential debate. now, just for our four days away, sorry, the four there, that's a real countdown going on. it's the first first major showdown between incumbent president joe biden and former president donald trump since 202

you'll know margaret thatcher, in her time.nd i know we're going back quite a while now , but she said, quite a while now, but she said, that a majority of seats, you know, if the scottish national party got a majority of seats that she would consider that to be the democratic choice of scotland, the snp , have not said scotland, the snp, have not said that in the past. they've obviously had a number of mandates. i think they've had something like five mandates just getting a mandate isn't enough to progress us to independence. that you know, they've been squandering these mandates and we haven't got anywhere . so i represent the anywhere. so i represent the alba party and we are suggesting that the way we get out of this, stalemate or roadblock, if you like, is that we just use the ballot box. so instead of, waiting for the uk to agree to a referendum, which they've said they won't do that, we in fact just use each and every election. so there is an opportunity here. the snp have not accepted it , but i believe not accepted it

mi6 argue for the rescue the final decision is elevated to the very top very unusually, margaret thatcheral at that moment because normally she went in september the principal private sector in the foreign affairs had to go up to belmore almost force his way in to sima what was at stake was two things one was the human feeling of the risks to this person who had served the uk so well the other was the damage that will be done to british relations with the soviet unio

thatcher or things like that.s just time in the past, and i don't think some people might say that either. >> i'm sure there's lots of people telling rishi sunak that he should be more like maggie thatcher. >> so i'm just giving you an opportunity there , for the two opportunity there, for the two of you. >> but but yeah, but i really don't think that this is a critical matter for the election. >> i think what's critical is for labour to have laid out a proper manifesto, which we've done , to lay out how we're going done, to lay out how we're going to deal with that through , a new to deal with that through, a new chancellor, of course, in rachel . and what on earth happens, over the coming months that you need to deal with as a government ? and i think keir government? and i think keir starmer is ready and raring to go as, prime minister if, when the public do decide on the 4th of july that it should be a labour government . labour government. >> and yet i thought this to me is a little bit confusing. you you wer

margaret thatcher famously said she wasn't for turning. you are obviously for turning.earts and heads, isn't it? you know, i rationally thought this was too difficult. i've changed my mind because i can't let down millions of people who would feel let down by me, unless i was at the front and led this charge over the course of the next five and a half years. a reform uk source says mr farage loves the theatre of it all and he certainly put himself centre stage at this election. the worry for the conservatives is that he will divert votes away from them. mr farage, who'd been called a chicken for not running, was also announced as the new reform uk leader. unlike other parties, without any sort of vote. when the election was called, mr farage had said it was too soon and he was also too busy with us politics. six weeks is such a short period of time to fight a parliamentary constituency and promote the cause around the country. and you know, i think rishi sunak has wrong—footed an awful lot of people, myself included. nigel paul farage. he's tried seven times before to b

george bush in great britain led by prime minister margaret thatcher.r. and regarding detente , did you already have something to do with diplomatic circles by 1982? i actually lived in the same house as sladimovich andropov, i communicated with him. insofar as my father had been friends with him since '57, i will say, i want to say one thing, that yuri vladimirovich once told me that we need working socialism, this was his theses, he deciphered somehow that he doesn’t really work, but i think that in many ways, by the way, what year is this, excuse me, it was approximately the eightieth year, approximately, no, it was the eightieth year. and it is no coincidence, by the way, when he became general secretary, he appointed arkady ivanovich volsky as his assistant, this was precisely what was on purpose, that was andropov’s strength, the first thing was that he knew all the weak points of the soviet system, this is one, two, he knew the external circuit perfectly well, because under him the pgu, the first main directorate, worked superbly and, as they say

or at least reagan and thatcher, the whole western world now, especially the united states of america, is falling into gerantocracy, the two main candidates for the post of superpower, over hegemo, over people of very old age, these people are incapable of making decisions on a planetary scale level, well but there is also the fishing of history or the fishing of god, who reacts to it and how do they understand it, is it possible to coincide both negative and, by the way, and... positive of these moments of unpredictability , i fully suspect that our viewers are now rushing to find a soothing, which is at their home, on work, or where they are looking at us there, mr. peter, it must be, there would not be this war, if we as a whole community soberly since 1991, looked at geopolitics, i have a personal internal drama that i became known, it would be better to be unknown, shouted at... those sites there will be a blow, they clapped me on the shoulder, they said you are a wise guy, peter, but you are talking absolute nonsense, believe me, it was painful to experience, just now russia and

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