Bill Cash has released a private letter written by Margaret Thatcher, following the Maastricht Treaty, which reveals that she would have campaigned to leave the EU. Lady Thatcher describes, in the letter, the EU project as “contrary to British interests and damaging to our Parliamentary democracy”.
Bill Cash MP has released a private letter written by Margaret Thatcher, following the Maastricht Treaty, which reveals that she would have campaigned to leave the EU. Lady Thatcher describes, in the letter, the EU project as “contrary to British interests and damaging to our Parliamentary democracy”.
The Daily Mail published the letter and quote Bill Cash as saying,
‘When she handed this note to me personally, she told me I was to produce it any time when there was a serious question about whether or not she would have signed up to the European project.
‘It is inconceivable she would not have wanted to leave the EU. If you are going to veto Maastricht, you are saying you are not going to go ahead with the European project.
‘She gave the letter to me for a specific purpose and she had trust in me that I would do what she wanted. I am now doing that. There has never been the same degree of necessity to (release it) as there is now.’
Bill Cash refuted Lord Powell’s claim that Lady Thatcher would have supported David Cameron’s renegotiations, he said: “I was very disturbed and deeply concerned that somebody who knew her so intimately should believe that she would have gone along with what is a completely undemocratic project. It is just inconceivable.”
