"but in accordance with the majority national [i.e. democratic] will at that"...

The suggestion that Thatcher ever had a majority of votes should never be allowed to go uncorrected. The British electoral system doesn't work that way. Most people always voted against her party.
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But this is drifting the thread way too far. There might be interesting stuff here still to come about family conficts and suchlike, and they'll be squeezed out if it turns to rehashing political arguments which belong on oter threads.

In fact its just the kind of thing which Elmore found so unpleasant in meetings with his step-son.