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What absolutely disgusted me was the justification of his point by saying that: "If thousands of ticketless fans had not turned up and pushed their way into the ground then the whole scenario would not have occurred." ... It may be that in this letter his views do not come across very strongly, but I
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stated in public the view that
Margaret Thatcher's first year in Downing Street had been "wasted". Joseph's press secretary reported this to Ingham. In his reply, contained in a letter dated 1 December 1980, he said Thatcher was "quite relaxed about it", adding: "I believe she agrees with Sir Keith
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Hebden Bridge residents launched a campaign against Ingham to remove him as a local newspaper columnist over his continued refusal to apologise for his words in the aftermath of the
Hillsborough disaster. He continued to write articles until February 2013. On 26 April 2016, a jury gave the verdict
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in April 2009, Ingham referred to
Thatcher as "reckless" and a battler for Britain. He said her greatest quality was that she did not want to be loved, and she came to office without a Press Secretary and had "the enormous will" to overcome "defeatist inertia", such as: "Oh you can't do that Prime
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as representative of Ingham's use of
English: "Like a mighty oak, it took more than one axe to bring Mrs Thatcher down. In November 1990 they were cutting into this solid timber from all angles. The frenzy was fearsome to behold. Heaven preserve us from political axe-men in a state of panic. They
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journalist, who commented that "... there is no information in this book. I picked it up eagerly, refusing to believe that someone so close to the top for so long could fail to reveal, even by mistake, a single interesting piece of information" and he was particularly scathing about Ingham's
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The court was told that Cripps told Ingham: "You have damaged my car", to which he replied, "Good, I'm glad". Ingham said, "I did not cause the damage complained of and to resolve the issue I accepted advice that I should agree to be bound over. I have paid £792 to cover the cost of the alleged
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that the 96 killed at
Hillsborough were unlawfully killed and that the Liverpool fans' behaviour did not contribute to the dangerous situation at the turnstiles. Ingham declined to apologise or respond to the previous comments he made, which led to petitions being created on
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as a "semi-detached" member of the government. Biffen was dropped at the next reshuffle. This blurring of the distinction between his nominally neutral role as a civil servant and a more partisan role as an apologist and promoter of
Margaret Thatcher's policies led
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damage to the car." Cripps's husband said after the case "We are weary of the constant bombardment that we have suffered. We are no match for Sir
Bernard Ingham. Let's hope that he will now allow us to get on with our lives peacefully".
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would cut off their grandmas in their prime if they thought it would serve their interests. And so they cut off a grandma in her international prime by the stocking tops, to borrow one of Denis's phrases, which Mrs
Thatcher often used."
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were being "as greedy as sin", stating that "the only thing that fuelled nationalism was the smell of oil and money in oil", suggesting that any nationalist sentiments were merely a disguised form of greed.
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on day release as part of the studies required to qualify for the
Certificate of Training for Junior Journalists, which he described as being "taken rather seriously in early post-war Britain".
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to characterise Ingham as "a nugatory individual" and to criticise what he saw as the negative consequences of Ingham's time as
Thatcher's press secretary: "During his time in office,
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took several steps towards an American system of Presidentially-managed coverage and sound-bite deference, without acquiring any of the American constitutional protection in return."
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when she was Prime Minister. In 1979–90 he was also head of the Government Information Office. In the course of his civil service career, he was also press secretary to
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1037:'Good and Faithful Servant' – The Unauthorised Biography of Bernard Ingham
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but for the sake of the government and confidence in it does not say so."
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The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher: The Diaries of Bernard Ingham
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Hitchens, Christopher (10 January 1991). "What is this Bernard?".
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Minister, they won't allow it". He attended her funeral at
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255:Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1804:Adeney, Martin (24 February 2023).
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751:Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Villages
568:nuclear power in the United Kingdom
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790:Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles
779:(Politico's Publishing Ltd, 2003)
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1735:"Truth, Lies, Oil and Scotland"
1733:Ingham, Bernard (5 June 2008).
1600:Bagot, Martin (26 April 2016).
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1962:Downing Street Press Secretary
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1254:"Sir Nigel Hawthorne mourned"
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871:"Home | Halifax Courier"
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275:West Riding of Yorkshire
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1281:26 January 2012 at the
1171:"Maggie was 'tactless'"
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366:No. 10 Downing Street
2404:Nerissa Chesterfield
1749:– via YouTube.
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420:Christopher Hitchens
316:Leeds Weekly Citizen
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558:BBC current affairs
520:St Paul's Cathedral
279:Hebden Bridge Times
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764:The Wages of Spin
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