"She was brought down in the end, not by the electorate, but her colleagues.
"Not only is it quite remarkable that she won three elections running...What was remarkable is that she polled slightly more votes on the occasion of her third victory when she had been in office eight years than on her first. That, I regard, as a triumph for her.
"I think I do regret that because of the commitments I made to my own wife that I did not feel able either to continue in government after 1987, or to return to government when she later asked me to do. I left her, I fear, at the mercy of her 'friends'. That, I do regret."
— Lord Norman Tebbit, former Chairman of the Conservative Party (1931 - 2025)
