Margaret Thatcher wanted Britain to leave the EU despite claims she would have voted Remain, new authorised biography reveals

Margaret Thatcher backed Britain leaving the European Union, according to the final volume of her authorised biography. The former Tory Prime Minister confided to a friend that the UK would be “better off outside” the EU once she had left Number 10, according to the third and final volume of Charles Moore’s biography of Lady Thatcher. Out of office Mrs Thatcher had gradually come to think that Britain should find a way to leave the EU and told this to “many people … in the manner of confiding a secret,” Moore says. In one instance Mrs Thatcher told Christopher Collins, who helped with her memoirs: "I think we would be better off outside." She never said so in public because aides advised her it would be too divisive. The comments in “Herself Alone” – serialised by The Telegraph – are at odds with opinions given by two close aides to Mrs Thatcher after Britain voted to leave the EU at the 2016 referendum. Charles Powell, Mrs Thatcher's most trusted foreign affairs adviser in Number 10, said in September 2016 that Mrs Thatcher would have voted to stay in the EU. And Caroline Slocock, who worked for Mrs Thatcher in 10… Read full this story

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