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They always wait until they're out of office to let us know how crazy
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Diary: Ex-PM Called Thatcher 'Loopy'
LONDON (AP) - Former Prime Minister John Major called his predecessor
Margaret Thatcher ``mad'' and ``loopy,'' according to diaries written by his
former political adviser.
Excerpts from Judith Chaplin's diaries were published Sunday in The Sunday
Telegraph, a London newspaper.
``I want her isolated, I want her destroyed,'' Mrs. Chaplin quoted Major as
saying in June 1991, eight months after he succeeded Lady Thatcher as leader
of the then-governing Conservative Party. Mrs. Chaplin wrote in an entry
later in June that Major described Lady Thatcher as ``mad,'' ``loopy'' and
``emotional.''
At the time, Lady Thatcher had been publicly criticizing Major when his
actions and policies differed from her own. Even Mrs. Thatcher's friends had
begun to suggest she find a different role outside the House of Commons.
Major and most of Thatcher's Cabinet professed to support her just before her
November 1990 ouster by rank-and-file legislators worried about her lack of
popularity and increasing antagonism toward the European Union.
Major's government lost to the Labor Party in May 1997 elections.
Mrs. Chaplin died in 1993 after routine surgery. The Sunday Telegraph said it
was given permission to publish the extracts by her children.
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