Boris Johnson’s claims on Europe played part in Thatcher downfall, documents suggest Johnson claims on EU integration that spurred on Thatcher speech ‘not quite right’ archivist says ...

Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech on the future of Europe became a seminal text for Eurosceptics in the UK but was partly inspired by a Europhile and never intended to be an anti-European speech ...

MARGARET Thatcher laid the foundations for Brexit in a fiery speech that opened Britain’s eyes and transformed a pro-European Conservative Party to one that quickly became eurosceptic.

There is also a suggestion in the notes that Lady Thatcher removed the word ‘socialism’ from her speech, which argued against EU federalism, to avoid offence.

At the summit, Thatcher got a financial rebate for Britain. Thatcher’s 11-year premiership became increasingly dominated by her opposition to what later became known as the European Union.

30 years on from Margaret Thatcher’s Bruges speech, her warnings to the EU still ring true MARGARET Thatcher’s historic Bruges speech, which provided inspiration for a generation of ...

In the speech, Thatcher voiced her growing opposition to calls for more integration between the countries of what became known as the European Union.

Baroness Thatcher believed that Britain should leave the European Union, her biographer has revealed.

Nonetheless it is instructive to read the pro-European speeches which Thatcher, the newly chosen Conservative leader, made during Britain’s 1975 referendum campaign on whether to stay in the ...