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William Whitelaw was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for a short but politically momentous - and the most violent - period of the Troubles, in the early 1970s, and hence directed or oversaw a number of events and developments, in both the security and political realms, of great contemporary but also historic significance, most notably laying the necessary groundwork for the Sunningdale ...
11 set 2002 · I first set eyes on Willie Whitelaw at the 1962 Conservative party conference in Llandudno, 40 years ago almost to the day. At the time, he was the newly appointed parliamentary secretary to the ...
3 lug 1999 · Sat Jul 3 1999 - 01:00. Lord William (Willie) Whitelaw, who has died aged 81 after a long illness, described his tenure as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland as the high point of ...
2 dic 2023 · Quotes about Whitelaw [edit] Encountered Willie Whitelaw at dinner. He came in rather late and then started to tell me how absolutely ghastly life was with that awful woman, how he was thinking of resigning (from the Shadow Cabinet), what was my advice, etc. So I said, "On the whole, don't resign, Willie." "Oh, good," he said.
9 nov 2017 · And yet the relationship became not one of competition but rather of partnership: Whitelaw committed himself to ‘100-per-cent loyalty’ to Thatcher, and Thatcher recognised in Whitelaw ‘qualities and connections which she knew she lacked’ (Moore, 2013, p. 427) – ‘Everyone needs a Willie’, as she famously remarked (quoted in Moore, 2013, p. 640).
With 467 deaths in 1972 alone this was the height of the Troubles and a period that Willie - later Viscount - Whitelaw regarded as the most challenging of his career. In March 1973 he published a White Paper that proposed the election of a 78 member power sharing executive and in December the Sunningdale Agreement was signed.
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