PART TWO

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS

1983–87

It was a quiet Friday morning in Downing Street. The prime minister was stewing over a draft bill to privatize the armed forces.

Robert Barnard, Political Suicide (1986)

LAMBERT LE ROUX: What I do is a natural thing. There is nothing unnatural about making money.

Howard Brenton & David Hare, Pravda (1985)

JACK BOSWELL: We don’t have jobs, we just have optimism.

Carla Lane, Bread (1986)