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'It was Europe that toppled her.” 

That’s the conventional wisdom, repeated endlessly in recent days, on the subject of how Baroness Thatcher lost her grip on power

It’s perfectly true, of course, as the record shows, that back in November 1990, many of the then Prime Minister’s own MPs voted to oust her from No 10, embarrassed as they were by her high-handed treatment of Britain’s “European partners”.

For them, Michael Heseltine’s “consensual” approach seemed wiser and less troublesome. 

To tolerate and indulge Brussels’ vision of “ever greater union”, as numerous Tory bien pensants insisted, was to be somehow less chauvinistic.

The record also shows, though, that, whatever Lady Thatcher’s critics said then, and whatever the late Lady Thatcher’s critics continue to say today, she was right about Europe. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/9992255/EUs-poorest-will-only-take-so-much-austerity.html