Changes

* 1959 Elected as Member of Parliament for Finchley. She was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Science* 1961 She began visiting the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] (IEA) for lunches and reading its literature. She became firm friends of [[Antony Fisher]], [[Ralph Harris]], [[Arthur Seldon]] and [[Keith Joseph]]. * 1970-75 Cabinet rank politician, In 1970 Seldon invited Milton Friedman to the IEA, and she was converted to his monetarist policy. The ideas imported from Chicago had a great influence on members of the Conservative party, especially Enoch Powell, Sir Keith Joseph, and Margaret Thatcher. * 1974 Following the 1974 election defeat, Keith Joseph worked with Thatcher to set up the [[Centre for Policy Studies]], a think-tank to develop policies for the new free-market Conservatism that they both favoured. * 1975-79 Leader of the Tory opposition. Keith Joseph, who was expected to replace Heath, withdrew from the contest (Feb 11 1975) and endorsed Thatcher. Joseph became her major economic advisor with Harris and Seldon from the IEA.* 1979-90 (May 4 1979 to 28 Nov 1990) she was Prime MinisterSee the '''[[Margaret Thatcher Foundation]]''' web site for access to many more of her records. However searches for Philip Morris, Geoff Bible, Murray Bring and even Mark Thatcher all found nothing, so this is not likely to be a useful resource for real research. [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/]* 1979 June during her first few months in power, she made Ralph Harris a life peer as Baron Harris of High Cross so he could sit in the House of Lords; Keith Joseph became Secretary of State for Industry. Seldon continued to run the IEA and received a CBE later. Antony Fisher was knighted just a few days before his death * 1982 (2 April) the military junta ruling Argentina invaded the British possessions of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, triggering the [[Falklands War]] which became "a defining moment of her premiership". It rescued her popularity, which had sunk below that of any previous PM.* 1983 Thatcher now had a close admirer and ally in President Ronald Reagan - but Reagan didn't consult here when the US invaded Grenada.* 1984 was the year of the Miner's strike that nearly brought down the British government, and also an attempted assassination of Thatcher.* 1988-90 Thatcher attempted to introduce a poll tax (on inhabitants) to replace council rates. It was the most unpopular move of her career* 1990 Nov 28 Thatcher was forced to resign from the Prime Ministership under a Tory challenge to her leadership* 1992 April 9 The Tories won their fourth successive victory and Thatcher returned to the back benches. Her son was now dealing with the tobacco industry and other industries interested in gaining a foot-hold in the ex-Communist countries of East Europe. She later resigned and went to work for Philip Morris as an international lobbyist providing introductory services to the top officials in East Europe (Who saw her as a liberator).

==Background to the UK ToryThatcher/Philip Morris relationship== From 1985 - 91 the CEO/Chairman of the global Philip Morris Companies was [[Hamish Maxwell]]. Hamish was the son of the top UK Tory politician Sir Alexander ('Sandy') Hyslop Maxwell whose pre-war business was as the country's major tobacco importer and exporter -- and supplier of British cigarettes to Philip Morris in the USA and its subsidiary Benson & Hedges in Canada (the two companies later merged).

After the war, he remained a Permanent Under-Secretary of the Home Office -- which left him in charge of tobacco (still rationed) and tourism (the main UK fundraising business) during the reconstruction period -- until he was marginally embroiled in the Philby scandal. He had been in control of MI5 during the war and his 'very close' private secretary (almost certainly his occasional mistress) Jenifer Hart [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/apr/11/guardianobituaries.obituaries] turned out to be a "licentuous communist". After leaving the Tory government in the 1950s Sir [[Alex Maxwell|Alex "Sandy" Maxwell]] <ref> [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Maxwell‎]]</ref> became the UK industry's top lobbyist as Chairman of the [[Tobacco Advisory Council]] (TAC), which was the main UK lobby group of the day.

===The rise of Hamish Maxwell===

With Maxwell, they formed a triumvirate; each gave the other a leg-up as they moved up the corporate ladder from the PMI (International Division) to the top of the UK-based corporate ladderconglomerate. Later they were joined and supported by other Australian executives [[William Webb]] and [[Andrew Whist]] and [[Brian Bryan Simpson]] from Rupert Murdoch's Melbourne newspaper (''Herald & Weekly Times'' --and supposedly his nephew by marriage) was bought in to run the international INFOTAB tobacco lobbying organisation from Brussels. They were clearly all above-average, and since they were able to protect each other's back and give each other a leg-up, they quickly came to control Philip Morris International. They then moved on to control the Philip Morris tobacco/food conglomerate, and finally, by using aggressive tactics, they eventually dominated the lobbying efforts of the whole global international tobacco industry.

Hamish Maxwell and Geoff Bible both became close friends of Australian publisher [[Rupert Murdoch]] through the mediation of [[Andrew Whist ]] and [[Bryan Simpson, and they ]]. They put Rupert on the board of Philip Morris (in charge of the Remuneration Committee which set their salaries and bonuses!) -- and . In exchange, Hamish was the first of the triumvirate (Maxwell, Murray and BIble) from Philip Morris to be given board position on News Ltd. in exchange. Bible and Murray both received their rewards not long after. On , and on his retirement, Bible was hired to act as a mentor for Murdoch's second son, James, after the elder son Lachlan resigned (briefly) from the company.

Murdoch had a close relationship with Prime Minister Thatcher and supported her throughout with fierce attacks on the union movement. So the later Thatcher consultancy operation was almost certainly organised by Rupert Murdoch who was on the Philip Morris board from 1990 on. Philip Morris and its food subsidiaries were major News Ltd's major advertisers, and the Philip Morris Credit Corporation appears to have lent money to Murdoch when he had his critical financial crisis in 1990 (unproven).

News Limited and Philip Morris had an arrangement which continued over all three successive CEOs(Hamish Maxwell, R William Murray and then Geoffrey Bible). Murdoch would be on the PM Board (and in charge of the Remunerations Committee), while the successive CEOs of Philip Morris would get News Ltd board seats. No.3 Murdoch's senior staff [[Ken Cowley]], Geoff Bible was [[Roger Ailes]] and [[Bruce Matthews]] also given a job with News Limited on retirement as ran various corporate lobbying programs among the mentor Australian, US and trainer of Murdoch's sonsEuropean newspaper organisations under the "Freedom To Advertise" banner.

After leaving parliament she Margaret Thatcher began working with her son Mark Thatcher; he became, in effect, her business agent. He had made his living by exploiting his family connections to the Prime Minister. But after a number of scandals in the UK, he was now living in Texas -- originally as a representative of the luxury automotive company Lotus Cars -- but he also ran some other scams (selling Lotus didn't need his attention 24 hours a day) He got caught for tax evasion in Texas, then later he shifted to South Africa and became an arms dealer, mercenary and loan shark. Then he lost his knghthood, and was expelled from the USA, and Monaco.

<b.>1991 Aug 27</b> Murray Bring at Philip Morris follows up with Mark Thatcher following 'a productive and enjoyable' meeting in New York. He has consulted with Hamish Maxwell (son of Tory Sir 'Sandy' Maxwell) and they would like to proceed with a consulting arrangement with Mrs Thatcher. They want four meetings with the Board an senior management + some ad hoc consultations for advice on EC matters, etc. [https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/shjc0063]