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Geoffrey Howe

The latest news on former Conservative chancellor Geoffrey Howe

November 2020

  • Geoffrey Howe

    Howezat! The day a ‘dead sheep’ turned into a roaring lion

    Tory strife at No 10 is nothing new. Thirty years ago, Geoffrey Howe saw off Margaret Thatcher with one lethal speech

August 2020

  • William Keegan

    Rishi Sunak is riding high, but history shows No 11 can be a dangerous address

    William Keegan
    From Barber’s boom to Gordon Brown’s financial crisis, Britain’s current chancellor is treading a well-worn and precarious path

April 2017

  • Protesters demonstrate in New York against the US missile strike in Syria

    Liberal support for Trump’s Syria strikes

    Letters: We have not forgotten about his appalling policies, including his ban on refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries

November 2016

  • Geoffrey Howe on Budget day in 1980.

    Kitchen confidential: files reveal Howe asked Thatcher for No 11 refurb

  • The plan commissioned by Margaret Thatcher and her chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Howe, included proposals to charge for state schooling.

    Thatcher pushed for breakup of welfare state despite NHS pledge

October 2016

  • Sir Geoffrey Howe

    A look back
    From the Observer archive: this week in 1973

    It is of little relevance if Britain falls behind other countries in its economic growth

August 2016

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Zola Budd, the Daily Mail and a case of chequebook journalism

    Roy Greenslade
  • Mary Decker on the ground after a collision with Zola Budd, right, in the women’s 3,000m event at the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984.

    How Zola Budd passport row reached the top of Thatcher's government

May 2016

  • James Wilby (Geoffrey Howe) and Steve Nallon (Margaret Thatcher) in the theatrical version of Dead Sheep by Jonathan Maitland.

    BBC flocks to Thatcher drama Dead Sheep as EU referendum looms

    Play examining Geoffrey Howe’s split with PM over Europe looks more timely than ever

February 2016

  • Margaret Thatcher and Sir Geoffrey Howe in 1983.

    'Please bury deep': the hidden memo urging Thatcher to denounce apartheid

    Downing Street papers show officials concealed Geoffrey Howe’s plea in 1986 for the PM to attack apartheid as ‘totally repugnant’
  • William Keegan

    William Keegan's in my view
    It’s hard being shadow chancellor. Howe and Healey knew it

    William Keegan
    John McDonnell’s U-turn was typical of the peril that can befall the treasury opposition brief. At least he knew, as his predecessor did, when to stop digging
  • Geoffrey Howe with Margaret Thatcher in 1987

    Brief letters
    The balls needed to bowl Margaret Thatcher out

    Letters: It’s not really an oxymoron: is there some other term for Thatcher’s description of Geoffrey Howe as having an ‘insatiable appetite for compromise’?
  • Margaret Thatcher with Geoffrey Howe

    Geoffrey Howe, the close cabinet ally who became Thatcher’s assassin

  • Geoffrey Howe and Margaret Thatcher in 1987.

    Geoffrey Howe, Margaret Thatcher’s nemesis, dies aged 88

  • Geoffrey Howe has died of a suspected heart attack.

    Geoffrey Howe dies: prime minister leads tributes to 'quiet hero'

  • Geoffrey Howe working on budget papers

    Lord Howe of Aberavon obituary

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

  • Sir Geoffrey Howe: a life in politics - in pictures

  • Geoffrey Howe's most celebrated quotes

May 2013

  • geoffrey howe

    This is a new, farcical low and David Cameron is losing control

    Geoffrey Howe
    Geoffrey Howe: The Tory backbenchers' desire to quit Europe would leave Britain dangerously isolated
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