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Tell the people.
Tell them on television.

Questions in the public mind
answered by people in the public eye.

Good evening.

A few minutes ago,
the Prime Minister

the Right Honorable Harold Macmillan,
came to Television House

and he's here now in the ITN studio.

But why should the public,
on this issue

as regards the future
of the Royal Navy

believe you, a transient, uh...

here today, and if I may say so,
gone-tomorrow politician

rather than a senior officer
of many years' service?

I'm sorry,
I'm fed up with this interview.

It's ridiculous, really.

Well, thank you, Mr. Nott.

It's quite straight, yes or no...

Give me a straight question
and I'll give you an answer.

It may be the question, but it's not
the way I choose to answer it.

The Prime Minister
has just arrived

in the last
few seconds.

Morning, Prime Minister.
Would you come on

Good Morning Britain,
Prime Minister?

Oh, for f**k's sake.

Morning-morning, Brian.
How are we?

Fine, thank you, Pam.
Good morning.

Sleepless night, was it?
Better use my thick brush, eh?

I've always quite liked her.

Well, how sort of
single-minded she is anyway.

I can't remember.

Have you interviewed her before?

Oh, yes. Many times over the years.

Brian.

She'll have seen this too, of course.

She'll come out fighting now.

Don't you think?

Brian.

What have you decided?
The, uh... strategy.

What are you going to do?

Look, bad timing, that's all.

It's a full 45 minutes, remember?

He's your favorite for a reason,
and he's a friend.

Be a walk in the park.

Just this way,
please, Prime Minister.

Margaret, how are you?

Well, Brian. Always well.

Now, I expect you'll be starting off
with you-know-who, and you-know-what.

Hello. Good morning.

But I do hope we can then move on
to something of more substance.

Like we usually do.

He seems, uh...
dare I say it, nervous.

And he's never nervous.
It's making me nervous.

Can you stop saying nervous?

Five, four, three, two...

Good afternoon.

Nigel Lawson's shock resignation

has plunged the Prime Minister
into the most serious

political crisis of her career.

Prime Minister.

Many people,
including many of your supporters

blame you for the resignation.

Now, how you respond to these claims

may be of crucial significance
for you personally

and for your government.

And so I put it to you

are you to blame?

I put this to our Chancellor.

There's no reason
he has to answer it.

I'm not that important.

But I'm afraid I cannot vote
with my own government on this order.

- I regret it, but I cannot do so.
- Hear, hear...

These are old solutions...

for an increasingly tired country

desperate to feel
new and young again.

Many of my honorable friends
whose conscience and experience

are not less than mine
and in many cases are greater

will vote for the government.

Uh, I respect their decision
as they will respect mine.

Could he be our man?

My judgment is that we are
at the end of our tether.

Hear, hear.

Member for Dover.

My honorable friend
makes some exceptional points.

and I believe has captured
the despair of this nation.

Hear, hear.

Where are the answers
in this government's proposals

to the challenges we face? Nowhere.

Inflation? Nowhere.

Stagnation? Nowhere.

Unemployment? Nowhere.

Hear, hear.

- Brian Walden for David Cox.
- Oh, yes. Ninth floor.

Well, what can I say?
London Weekend Television.

Three of the most
glamorous things there are.

But, uh, if we do, uh...

collectively decide
to give this a go

I'd have to stand down.

Uh... as an MP with a regular spot
on television, that would be...

- I mean, wouldn't that be--
- Unethical? Yes.

And how would that, you know,
be giving that all up?

Well... it's no secret.

I'm no fan of the direction
the Labour Party is heading.

They're completely at the mercy
of the unions, all these...

North London Marxist types.

Not the broader tradition
I came from.

Yeah. In fact, to be honest...

I don't think
I should ever have been an MP at all.

Working-class lad at Oxford.
I was flattered into it.

You realize pretty quickly

just how little impact
as an individual you can have.

Weekend World
is a unique show at LWT.

They pretty much leave us alone
to do what we do.

And uh, what is it you think you do,
my old son?

A long-form forensic interview to
help facilitate mass comprehension.

Mass comprehension? My, oh my.

In other words, helping folk
understand what the hell is going on?

When we came on-air years ago

we were and still are
the only political program

to put a single interviewee through
their paces for an entire show.

And we do that on the same channel

and in between repeats
of Upstairs, Downstairs

and wrestlers knocking ten bells
of shit out of one another

for Weekend Sport.

Because we believe the political
interview ought to play a part

in a popular audience's understanding
of the world they live in.

Very good. Nicely pitched.

And as regards you and...
current affairs.

No affairs currently.

I'm very faithful to my wife
at present.

Why? What have you heard?

This is, uh, your third wife.

But you know...

some gobby bloke with
a common-as-muck Midlands accent?

When you think of the news,
how it sounds doesn't sound like me.

No. Tsk. But...

you... sound like our audience.

Well, I suppose
when you think about it.

Shakespeare, the great vendor
of the English language.

He was a Brummie, wasn't he?

In fact, he probably said
those lines just like this.

Hmm. What? "Romeo, Romeo."

"Wherefore art thou, Romeo?"

I'll see you round, gentlemen.

So, Brian, this is, uh,
the rest of the production team.

Hello. Hello.

You look young. What's your story?

Oh, yeah.

I did a stint at BBC Birmingham,
actually. Your neck of the...

They have this South Asian
programing unit there now.

Wonderful. Don't tell me
you're a West Bromwich Albion fan.

No, wait. Hold the line. Uh...

Seventh this year
in the First Division.

Before that...

third in the second.
And then sixth and then eighth.

Photographic memory.
Test on me anything, Sue.

Anything.
What's... what's your passion?

Barry Manilow
and meetings starting on time.

You're skeptical, John.

Hmm. It's my job
to be skeptical of politicians.

And here we are,
inviting one into our team.

Well, they told us
to shake things up.

He was thought of
as a future party leader once.

You don't think it'll be lightweight?

Politicians always, at some level,
just want to be liked.

If I've learned one thing,
is that a show like this...

you're only ever one ratings dip,
one whiff of an audience

losing interest before...

well...

He's got something. We take the risk.

Your first guest
should be someone quite, uh...

loud, drawing some press.
A political titan.

Maybe Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey,
Airey Neave, even Ted Heath.

Already done him. Done him twice.

Won't do it, and...

Oh my Christ,
do you want people to fall asleep?

I have a suggestion, actually.

- That's a blank piece of paper.
- It is.

I was hoping for a dramatic reveal.
Stand corrected.

Right. Here we go.

Margaret Thatcher?

Yes. Interview the leader
of the opposition

while she's still...
relatively green.

Her other interviews
haven't been hugely illuminating.

To me, she trots out
other people's philosophies.

Keith Joseph, monetarism, libertarianism.

But I'm not sure there's much
going on there apart from her...

Uh, being...

Oh, right.
The only thing going for her

- is that she's a woman.
- No, no, I...

Although that is interesting

I think people are missing something.

Uh, she was pretty ruthless
in deposing her predecessor.

So why? What does she want?

What is this change
she's hoping to bring?

Isn't that worth finding out?

I... I think there's a bigger agenda.

I think that's... I don't think

that's the right territory
to go down.

All thoughts are welcome.

- Your policies...
- Hmm.

Then we're not just saying
she's in favor of...

Well, either way,
we can capitalize off

the key questions it gets on.

Margaret Thatcher.

Uh, since you became
leader of your party...

- Yeah.
- You have broken the tradition

insofar as you no longer seek
the conciliatory consensus

that your predecessors sought.

In other words, you are on course...

Brian.

Or should that be Mr. Walden?
Forgive me.

Mrs. Thatcher.

I'd heard rumors that you were
thinking of crossing the floor to us

once upon a time.

But now you've gone further.
You've crossed the river...

...instead.

Yes. Well, it's all...
it's all very new.

Well, it still is to me too, so...

you are new and I am new.

Excuse me,
Mr. Walden and Mrs. Thatcher.

Let's come this way, please.

Mr. Walden.

- Where do you want me?
- Mrs. Thatcher, just across there.

Okay, we're going
for tight on camera one, please.

On one.

Yeah, a tiny bit tighter.
Yeah. That's good, that's good.

Camera three, wide as well.

Okay.
Brian, can you hear me?

God, that's loud! Will you be
doing that the whole time?

Sir, you'll be
all the way over there?

Oh, yes. No, um...

It's just a sort of a funky idea that
they're trying out for the opening.

On camera, it'll look as if
we're facing each other

but in different aspects.

So if you face and I face, then...

- You see, on the monitor?
- Oh, yes.

Recording beginning
in five, four, three, two, one.

Roll credits.

Hello and good morning.

One of the most urgent questions
to which everyone wants an answer is

if we vote Margaret Thatcher
into Number Ten at the next election

will we be voting for a disastrous
and futile confrontation

between the government
and the unions?

Today, on Weekend World,
we will try and answer that question.

First, though, the news headlines
with Gordon Honeycombe.

There's more conjecture
about Middle East peace moves

after the unexpected return
to Israel last night from Paris

of the Israeli Foreign Secretary,
Mr. Dayan

and the Egyptian foreign minister,
Mr. Fahmy has left Cairo for France.

He's also on his way to America

with Egyptian proposals
for a Middle East settlement.

More than 40 firebombs...

All right. Main interview.
Good luck. Brian.

In speeches up and down the country

Mrs. Thatcher has often
startled her audiences.

Instead of the reassurance we've come
to expect from Conservative leaders

Mrs. Thatcher conveyed
a sense of imminent danger.

There's a reason Mrs. Thatcher
sounds more militant

than other postwar leaders.

They've avoided identifying
the party too closely

with any particular doctrine
because they've been afraid

that ideology costs votes.

Today, we're not going
to consider whether those

policies are in themselves
good or bad for Britain

but instead try to work out
whether she would overcome

the opposition
she's bound to run into.

So we've indulged
in a little crystal-ball gazing

with our own scenario
of what could happen

if she got into Number Ten.

Margaret Thatcher comes to power

after a close-run general election.

Immediately, Mrs. Thatcher cuts taxes

and announces large reductions
in public spending.

A national ballot of miners
comes out overwhelmingly

in favor of strike action.

So here we are.
Two Midlanders, east and west.

Oh, yes.

And you went to Oxford, too.

- On a scholarship.
- Me too.

Wouldn't have been
able to go otherwise.

No, no. Of course.

Although it did come with an awful
lot of hard work, of course.

Oh, yes, that was drilled into me.

- Hard work, just rewards.
- Five, four, three, two...

So what would Mrs. Thatcher do
if it came to the crunch?

Thank you for joining us,
Mrs. Thatcher.

Do you see yourself as we see you

as a figure who wants
to substantially change

a lot of things in our society,
who wants to...

roll back to a more
individualistic sort of society?

I think government has got into
far too many areas

and government really has tried

to stop a good deal
of individual liberty.

Now I want to roll back
those areas of decision

both from people and businesses.

That's not government's job.

- Well...
- One moment.

I want to be absolutely clear.

You see, the whole difference
between our society

and that of the United States
and Germany

is that they've grown
because they've got incentives.

The incentives we haven't had.

And I'm going to say, people

will respond to those incentives

and a socialist government
cannot give those incentives

because all of its philosophy,
all of its ideas...

Brian, do you challenge her?
She's an ideologue, a radical!

But governments spend better
when leaving the money with people.

And that is why they're coming
to us and not to them.

Uh... well, it's a vision

but governments
aren't conducted on visions.

Oh, no... no. It's a reality.

I enjoyed that.

I don't know why some people fear
this whole, you know, the medium.

I see these conversations
as opportunities.

Well, then we should
do it again sometime.

Uh, I think you're that way,
we're this.

Right, well...

- goodbye, then.
- Goodbye.

Bye.

Uh-oh. David's not saying anything.
Come, dear leader.

Oh, great Strategos.

- What mighty thoughts?
- You went too easy on her.

You gave her all that space
to postulate.

Don't our audience
want to hear her postulate?

The function
of a political interview

- isn't to provide a platform...
- So they can--

- ... for the politicians.
- So they make a judgment

- about her.
- It's to break apart their platform.

Interesting one, isn't he, Bernard?

Labour man, of course, but...

Well, with his background
like mine...

you take the Labour Party
like your mother's milk.

One of those aspirational working
classes we have to win over.

She was good.
Answers the question.

Full of substance...
full to bursting.

I've practically got indigestion.

Well, I'm sorry,
but I thought it was a disaster.

Well, he's a journalist
at the end of the day.

Out for himself. They all are.

Yes, these people must always
be kept at arm's length.

So we should be
seeing Mrs. Thatcher next

among jubilant party workers.

Mrs. Thatcher comes out
dressed in the most brilliant blue.

Mrs. Thatcher,
are you cautiously optimistic?

We're reserving judgment

but yes, optimistic
based on the polls.

Will it be a landslide,
Mrs. Thatcher?

Too early to tell...

Well,
if ever anyone looked like a winner

Mrs. Thatcher
looks like a winner this evening

as she goes off to Finchley.

Good luck, Maggie!

She must know now
that she is safely home and dry.

Good luck, Maggie!

It's never happened before.

There's never been a woman
Prime Minister of Britain

or of any other Western country.

That's what we're going to see
this afternoon

and it'll be symbolized
on the steps of Number Ten.

And that's what this crowd here
is waiting for too.

- Oh, Brian.
- Prime Minister.

Thank you for coming to see us here.

There's so many of you
to get through, I just needed to...

Not at all.
Happy to be one of the chosen.

Um, cutaway first?

Uh, yes, a quick intro and...

Presumably a two-shot
before moving to the...

Yes. Right.

Bernard, should that go?
That ornament thing.

It looks as if
it's sticking out of my head.

Don't want people
to think I've been impaled.

Avoid saying this... and this.

Yes.

Right.

Ready.

Britain enters the '80s with the most
radical leadership in a generation.

Margaret Thatcher insists economic
prosperity must return to Britain

and has made it clear she intends
to do whatever is necessary

to make her plan work.

Prime Minister,
uh, it won't surprise you

I don't suppose it surprises anybody,
that your political opponents think

your economic strategy will fail.

Well, theirs failed.

- And so we have to do--
- Well, we don't have time

- to go into that now.
- something very different.

No, wait a minute.
It's part of what you might call

the Thatcher experiment.

Well, what interests me more
is that they think

even if against their expectations,
you were to succeed economically

you would still have created
a society which is more unequal

riddled with avoidable injustices.

Now, is the price of our
economic recovery and prosperity

greater inequality in our country?

Indeed, yes.

One of the problems, of course,
there are differentials

for extra effort, extra skill.

You will get a more thriving society
when people can rise

to the limit of their talents.

For example, I don't expect to be
paid as much as you are, Mr. Walden.

Well, um...

but it... it does mean more
inequality, does it not?

It does mean more. Indeed, yes.

She actually answers
the bloody question.

I find that refreshing.

Yes, but you risk
coming across to the whole world

as though you're becoming
most enamored.

It's not enamored.

It... Look, she...

has a mission.

Agree with it or disagree with it,
she wants to get something done.

And I want to understand it.

Look, I get it. It... it's just...

it's your style, and it's
a valid one, opening them up.

I just wish with her you'd be
a bit harder because she is hard.

Listen, Brian.
Look, I'm sorry, but at some point

you're gonna have to let go of
the politician that wants to be liked

and embrace the journalist
who can prosecute.

Those red lines between the two,
they exist for a reason.

Well, then help me.

You say you want
to educate the masses.

Start with me, Coxy.

I can learn anything.

Teach me the ways
of the great political interviewer

and I'll learn them. Okay?

So we start with a mind map.

The plan, a map of potential answers
to each question

that we can war-game so that you can
prepare in advance where you go next.

Which I can memorize.

Trust me. Preparation, I can do.
Preparation, I love.

"Minister, are you going to perform
a U-turn on your manifesto pledge?"

If he says yes, move to 4-C.
No, to 8-B.

No, I will not be U-turning.

Well then. Are you aware of the cost
of continuing down this road

and what it's going to be?

Pointy heads.
Current affairs wonks.

I'd stay clear.

If they say yes,
they will increase taxes.

Turn right to this question.

If they say no, they will not
turn left to a different question.

Mr. Nott, if you could not
in fact bring public borrowing

under control by any other means

then you would have to increase taxes
in order to do so.

Most certainly.
Most certainly.

Uh, what we are committed...

For the Labour Party.
I have a very deep...

umbilical tie.

It would be as painful for me
to break away from it

as it would be
to break away from a family.

But you might.
And it's the might that interests me.

Geoffrey.

Are you ready for tomorrow's budget,
Chancellor?

Of course, Margaret.

And Nigel.

- Nice and smart.
- Hmm.

Congrats. Nigel.
Energy on the way up.

Cheers. Yes, lots to do.

Exactly. Energy, that's what we need.

Come and sit down.

I want you right here, Geoffrey,
on my right as chancellor.

Then, Nigel.

Uh, are you being any use?

- Doing my--
- Do something.

Um, Michael... you're a bit tall.

Would you please stand
in the back row?

Anyone else who's very tall?

Ah, just one moment.

Forgive me, Margaret, I...

thought I'd just run through these...
projections that are coming in.

Who the devil's that?

Oh, isn't it her
new economic adviser, um...

- Adam, Alan...
- Alan Walters.

Mad professor.

Has the PM's ear, but it won't last.

Best to avoid him at all costs.

Just bear with us.

Right. Are we all ready...

to face the lens of history?

Yes. Over to you.

Everyone look at me, please.

Pennies don't come
from heaven, Brian.

They have to be earned here on earth.

And there are plenty
out there to be earned.

If we do all the right things,
you know...

keep public spending under control,
keep public borrowing down...

then the boat will come in.

Well, um, that answer, um...

provokes me to ask you a question.

I'd hoped that wasn't
being provocative.

No, no, I don't mean in that sense.
I meant that it was stimulative.

And it stimulates me
to ask you a question.

When you talk about your values

uh, those values have
a resonance in our past.

What I would call Victorian values.
Now, is that correct?

Yes, exactly. Very much so.

Those were the values
when our country became great.

Yes, Victorian values.
I'm quite pleased with that.

I know, but you heard her.
She's going to start using that now.

A line you fed her.

Isn't this exactly
the kind of thing David--

Yes, but we're helping
define the news for our audience

not just report it, all right?

Look, I've got to file my column.

- Okay, I'll head back inside.
- Okay.

Um, well done tonight.
Chin-chin. Bravo. See you tomorrow.

You don't fancy a drink, do you?

Uh... Oh.

Well, um... Actually, I...

I probably best not
get a slapped wrist and...

uh, but um, cheers anyway.

No, I was never a socialist.

Come on, admit it.

No, uh... honestly.

Honestly, this is the thing
that the people on the left...

Well, the further left
have never understood

about actual working people.
We don't want handouts.

My dad didn't. We value hard work.

I've always been
more of a meritocrat.

Yes, a meritocracy. Exactly.

And you and I are
very good examples of that.

We've got to the very top
of our profession

against all the odds.

Look at us.

To us!

Um, just to say.

Uh, we can keep this between...

Oh, full confidentiality.

Like a doctor or a priest.

Yeah.

I remember something you said
in the Commons, um...

Of course I didn't know you
from Adam back then, but I...

I made a mental note of it.

Oh, really? What was it that I said?

You were talking about...
You used this phrase, um...

"the furtherance
of remarkable people."

And uh, I like that.

The aspiration of it. Didn't matter
where you were from, man or woman.

Yes, exactly.

You see, there are so many,
well, men...

Denis and I have to tolerate them.
We have to entertain them here.

And they didn't earn their place.

They just knew someone
who knew someone.

And they bluff and they blag
their way through

and they have unlimited chances!

But me...

if I don't spend hours and hours
preparing every detail...

Me too. I'm exactly the same.

- Exactly the same.
- Yeah.

You see, you never do shake it off,
do you?

That feeling one has of being...

an outsider.

I think that's why I, um...

I've always been nervous... uh, of...

I don't know, the mob.

Yeah... The unions, even.

My father was a glassblower
and very hard working.

Frequently out of work
because of the closed shop.

They wouldn't accept him,
wouldn't let him in.

Uh, I never knew why.

And your mother?

She passed away when I was, uh, 12.

Oh. I'm sorry.

She was the stronger one. Uh...

Maybe too strong, some thought.

Uh, she was a bookbinder.

My God, the uh... the luck of that.

That's the only reason there
were books in the house.

And she never read them, of course.

But for me...

being on my own a lot, uh...

never really being
into having friends...

um, I was very happy on my own.

Book in my lap,
enjoying brave new worlds.

Well, it seems to me
you made your own luck, Brian.

I'm very aware, painfully aware...

that one mistake
and they will have me out...

one day.

Doesn't matter what I do.

Someone will come for me.

I reckon there's no one you won't
be able to see off, Margaret.

This country
needs Margaret Thatcher.

Someone unafraid to offer a vision.

What can I say? She tickles me.

And I think I understand her.

In years to come, great novels
will be written about her.

We want Maggie! We want Maggie!

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
to the Young Conservatives Conference

Mr. Kenny Everett!

Let's bomb Russia!

Let's kick Michael Foot's stick away!

Put your hands together
for Jimmy Tarbuck and Steve Davis.

We want Maggie! We want Maggie!

We want Maggie! We want Maggie!

Ronnie, you're here.

All hail the speechwriter.
Did you see the rally at Wembley?

- I did.
- Oh, they were going wild.

Almost hysterical, some of them.

- Oh.
- Is hysteria a thing to be

courted and celebrated?

All feels a bit American.

Ronnie, it's only that it proves
what a draw she is amongst the young.

You wanted me to take another run
at the text for Wednesday?

Yes.

It's the last party broadcast
before the election day.

And I think... we think

following on
from what we've just seen...

- right, Ian?
- Yes. Yeah.

Cap... capturing,
harnessing the mood.

You know, the energy.
It's real, it's there, so...

Well, I... I was going for mood.

A sort of thoughtful mood piece.

No! That's what we want changed.

Hammer home our achievements.
Bang... bang!

And what we've still got left to do.
Boom... boom!

The people, they're ready now
for some confidence, some ambition

to go further in the fight.

That's what the campaign's been.
Bangs and booms.

I thought now...

a little night music.

A little night music?

Ronald, we want them on their feet
like they were today!

"Maggie! Maggie!"

Margaret,
must everything always be a fight?

Can't it sometimes be...
peace and quiet?

Ron's gone wobbly.
We'll need another writer.

- What?
- Sorry, Ron.

Maybe someone from Saatchis?

No, not an ad man.

We want poetry.

This is about instinct.

Somebody knows what we are
and what we need to say, in his gut.

What about Brian?

Brian?

Is that proper?

And he's not a speechwriter.
He's a journalist.

And a good one.

Ronnie's a playwright,
and a good one.

Thank you, good night.

Good night. Ronnie.

It's just...

I don't know what the protocol...

- and it's nearly midnight.
- Call him. Call Brian.

Hello.

Brian, forgive the hour,
it's Ian Gow.

You're not around, are you?

Um...

Around for, uh...

for what? And when?

We wanted to...

Well, now, actually.

Final party political broadcast

going out the night
before polling day.

And Margaret just wondered
about getting your take on it.

She'd just like your brain on it.

Brain of Brian. Brian's brain.

Maybe I should sleep on it.

Or check with some of the...
You know, it's okay to...

It's only that we need to get you
into a cab, sort of... now-ish.

And maybe best
just kept between ourselves.

Less complicated. For you, I mean.

- Brian.
- Ah.

Honestly, I can't thank you enough.

Have some coffee.

Thank you. Yes.

Well, I... I saw the clips.
Uh, Wembley.

- Jimmy Tarbuck, Kenny Everett.
- Mm-hmm.

Even Steve Davis looked excited.

- For Steve Davis.
- He stinks of booze.

- He's been drinking.
- Oh, for heaven's sake, you.

Go and knit a quilt or something.

Here, coffee.

Black as the night.

Yes, the rally
rather took us by surprise.

Hence why we want to cross
the finishing line

a bit more triumphantly,
with a bit more punch.

Yes, um...

It's, it's a little... tricky. Uh...

unwritten rules of journalism,
you know. Church and state?

No, of course.

Oh, completely.
This doesn't have to affect that.

Brian, you're a professional,
and I'm a professional.

Absolutely.

You know,
there's been some polling done today.

Polling all the time, of course...

but on this policy or that message,
but this was specifically on me.

Well, let me guess.
The same lazy stereotypes...

"battle ax" sort of stuff.

Strong? Yes.

Capable, just not likable...

apparently.

Well, I mean, that's...
That's your public persona.

Uh, in private...

I mean, in private, uh...
I... I like you.

Thank you, Brian.

And... and I wasn't fishing.

No, it's just that I know
one has to be...

uh...

You see, when I first came into this,
everyone before me had been so wet.

Wet, and nothing got done.

And I refuse to be that.

No, the moment you stop driving hard,
the whole thing comes off the road.

It's just...

oh, I don't know.
Maybe I should have shown some...

I don't know,
humility or... softness?

No, this country
is so bloody lily-livered.

You mustn't bend, Margaret.
There's too much to do.

I wouldn't give them an inch.
I mean it.

At crucial moments like this,
never compromise, never flinch.

And you can forget your naysayers.

You have plenty of people who...

believe in you.

And I do like fun.
You know, I...

I can... I can tell a joke.

I heard one only the other day.
What was it?

Um, there's this man
in a hospital, and...

No... no.
He goes into a bar

and he's still wearing his gown,
and he...

No, no.
Well, I'll... I'll remember it.

But thank you, Brian, for your faith.

You were one of the first people
to take me seriously

when everyone else
dismissed me out of hand.

I'll always be grateful for that.

So shall we get on?

For freedom!

Freedom is the birthright
of every citizen.

To preserve and defend that freedom.

To defend it from within
and from without.

Amen.

In Britain today,
there is no room

for outdated distinctions
of class or creed.

It doesn't matter who you are
or who your father is

or where you came from.

Hello.

So there's this man
who goes into a pub

from the hospital next door.

And he's still wearing his gown

and he's pulling his IV stand
along with him.

You know, all that business.

And the landlord looks a bit worried.

He says, "Can I help you?"

And our chap says, "Yes, please.

I'd like two pints of lager

two Guinness, four gin and tonics

and three shots of tequila."

And it's a free world.

So the landlord, you know,
he's an entrepreneurial sort.

He gives the man his drinks.

And then the man
downs them one by one

ending up with the shots of tequila.

And he turns to the landlord
and he says

"Do you know, I really shouldn't have
drunk all that with what I've got."

And the landlord says,
"Why, what have you got?"

And he says, "About £3.50."

And I will honor that pledge
I made you in this unrelenting quest

to break down the old barriers

and build a Britain
where it doesn't matter

who your father is
or where you come from.

- The certainty of liberty!
- Remember this moment.

- And the chance of property...
- A sense of...

triumph on their faces. Look at it.

They think they're untouchable now.

A landslide.

The Falklands, all of it. I mean...

What need to be held
accountable on camera

subjected to scrutiny anymore?

...passionately believe...

Well, yes,
they are strong now.

Which means we have to be stronger
and harder and tougher

in return,
on behalf of our viewers. Okay?

Right?

Right.

Mr. Lawson, Prime Minister
has asked you to come upstairs.

Yes. Come in.

He's here.

Assuming he accepts

I'll get it out
in the first editions.

All hunky dory.
Still riding high on a wave.

Hunky dory?

What's worrying you?

Have you ever...

in the moment, just given a piece
of yourself to somebody?

Perhaps more than you meant to.
And then after the fact, you...

No... I don't know.

Who?

No, it doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.

Show him in.

- Nigel.
- Prime Minister.

- Come on in and sit down.
- Thanks.

So...

Geoffrey is taking the foreign brief.

I was rather hoping you would
take up his mantle as Chancellor.

I would like that very much.
It would be a great honor to accept.

Well, there's no time
like the present.

I thought it would be good to...
get into a routine of having

little... informal chats
a couple of times a week.

Because, you know, the relationship
between Prime Minister and Chancellor

needs to be very, very close.
Don't you agree?

Without question, Prime Minister.

Margaret.

Margaret.

You've proved yourself
to be able to get things done.

And this term, it's time.
It's time...

to start selling back
to the private sector

everything that came under
public ownership after the war.

We must let them get out there
and thrive with confidence.

- Yes?
- Absolutely.

- Let's get on with it.
- Right.

And to that end, Nigel...

Were you thinking
of having a haircut?

- Haircut?
- Yes. Long and unkempt.

- That's the other lot, isn't it?
- Of course. Margaret.

Prime Minister? Switchboard
have Brian Walden on the phone.

Uh... yes.

Would you pass that onto Bernard,
please, instead?

Margaret, how are you?

Well, Brian. Always well.

Okay, all set.

Four, three, two...

What on earth is going on out there?

Betrayal.