"saw the popularity of the Conservative Government increase, with some attributing this rise to the aftermath of the war with others suggesting that the rise in popularity was due to an increase in economic optimism, with the war increasing productivity by 3%. The war did however cause several members of the government to resign, including the Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the most recent time that a UK government minister resigned openly in response to a failure of his department (in not anticipating the war). Criticism was levelled at Ted Rowlands, a former junior foreign minister in the preceding government, who"
"Nkomo, and Josiah Tongogara, which brought to an end Rhodesia's Bush War. He later expressed his support for Mugabe over Smith. He was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. Although not immediately responsible, he nevertheless took full responsibility for the complacency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its failures to foresee this development, or rather for the misleading signals the Foreign Office sent under his leadership on British intentions on retaining control over the Falklands, and, on 5 April, resigned; Thatcher was sorry to see him go. Since his resignation, no other member of the"
"of individual ministerial responsibility. However, in papers released thirty years after the affair it was found that Dugdale had known and approved of his civil servants' actions, and had to an extent passed the buck to them himself. It was also found that the inquiry was inaccurate and biased, having been led by a former Conservative candidate who was very opposed to civil servants and state interference. Dugdale's junior minister, Lord Carrington, also tendered his resignation, but it was refused. He went on to be Foreign Secretary, resigning the post in 1982 over the Falklands War. Commander Marten received his"
"Nott also held the most senior position in the Trade department before becoming Secretary of State for Defence, including during the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the ensuing Falklands War. His assertion that he was cutting the defence budget before the war was not capricious and he offered his resignation to Margaret Thatcher, however she kept him for the duration of the conflict and he stood down in 1983. At general elections, the constituency is usually one of the last to declare a result - the delay in bringing the ballot boxes over from the Isles of Scilly"
"Until it was dissolved on 12 August, the War Cabinet met at least daily. Although Margaret Thatcher is described as dominating the War Cabinet, Lawrence Freedman notes in the ""Official History of the Falklands Campaign"" that she did not ignore opposition or fail to consult others. However, once a decision was reached she ""did not look back"". On the evening of 3 April, the United Kingdom's United Nations ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons put a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council. The resolution, which condemned the hostilities and demanded the immediate Argentine withdrawal from the Islands, was adopted by"
"force around the Falklands and launch a ""massive attack"" the following day. The sinking also became a ""cause célèbre"" for anti-war campaigners such as Labour MP Tam Dalyell. Early reports wrongly claimed or suggested that more than 1,000 Argentine sailors may have been killed in the sinking; it was in fact a little less than a third of that total. The sinking occurred 14 hours after President of Peru Fernando Belaúnde proposed a comprehensive peace plan and called for regional unity, although Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and diplomats in London did not see this document until after the sinking of"
"Foreign Affairs, in Haughey's second cabinet. One of the major incidents of his tenure at Iveagh House was the outbreak of the Falklands War. Although Anglo-Irish relations were at an all-time low, Collins opposed the act of aggression by the Argentinian government at United Nations and EEC levels. The Fianna Fáil government fell in October of that same year and Collins's party were out of power following the November 1982 general election. A period of instability followed within Fianna Fáil as a number of TDs attempted to oust Charles Haughey as party leader. Desmond O'Malley was seen as the clear"
"frigates and from three to two Aircraft Carriers. He switched the resultant savings into nuclear submarines, naval weapon systems and air defence. He announced and took through Parliament the upgrading of the nuclear deterrent to the current Trident system (D5). Nott offered his resignation as Defence Secretary to Thatcher following the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands in March 1982. Unlike then Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, however, the resignation was not accepted. Nott remained Secretary of State for Defence throughout the four-month conflict. He was eventually replaced by Michael Heseltine in January 1983 when Nott announced he would not seek re-election"
"United Kingdom on 26 January 2012–the position having been left vacant since the retirement of Federico Mirré in 2008 as a symbol of Argentina's disappointment with the British Government's handling of the sovereignty dispute. The Falklands dispute dominated Castro's tenure as ambassador to the United Kingdom. On 30 April 2012 she publicly confronted Foreign Secretary William Hague on the matter at the launch of the Foreign Office's annual human rights report. Following the death of Margaret Thatcher, who had been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Falklands War, Castro was invited to attend the funeral on 17 April"
"after refusing to hand in his resignation. This was because he was unable to accept the reductions in the strength of the Royal Navy proposed by Thatcher and then Secretary of State for Defence, John Nott. With typical service humour, a Royal Navy saying of the time was the fictitious order ""Less (K)notts, more Speed!"". Later events in the Falklands War showed the shrewdness of his position, and he was made a Knight Bachelor in 1992. He retired as an MP in 1997. In 1982 he wrote a book, ""Sea Change"" (see bibliography), which outlined the background to the Falklands"
"the Falklands War. The subsequent crisis was ""a defining moment of her [Thatcher's] premiership"". At the suggestion of Harold Macmillan and Robert Armstrong, she set up and chaired a small War Cabinet (formally called ODSA, Overseas and Defence committee, South Atlantic) to take charge of the conduct of the war, which by 5–6 April had authorised and dispatched a naval task force to retake the islands. Argentina surrendered on 14 June and the operation was hailed a success, notwithstanding the deaths of 255 British servicemen and 3 Falkland Islanders. Argentinian deaths totalled 649, half of them after the nuclear-powered submarine"
"forces landed on the islands. The White House continued its neutrality; Reagan famously declared at the time that he could not understand why two allies were arguing over ""that little ice-cold bunch of land down there"". But he assented to Haig and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's position. Haig briefly (8–30 April) headed a ""shuttle diplomacy"" mission between London and Buenos Aires. According to a BBC documentary titled ""The Falklands War and the White House"", Caspar Weinberger's Department of Defense began a number of non-public actions to support and supply the British military while Haig's shuttle diplomacy was still ongoing."
"Geoffrey Howe Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015), known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British Conservative politician. Howe was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and finally Leader of the House of Commons, Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council. His resignation on 1 November 1990 is widely considered by the British press to have precipitated Thatcher's own resignation three weeks later. Geoffrey Howe was born in 1926 at Port Talbot, Wales, to Benjamin"
"in 1969, knighted KCMG in 1975 and GCMG in 1982. The Sudanese government awarded him the Order of the Two Niles in 1965. Balliol College, Oxford, gave him an Honorary Fellowship in 1984. Sir Anthony was portrayed by Robert Hardy in ""The Falklands Play"". Anthony Parsons Sir Anthony Derrick Parsons (9 September 1922 – 12 August 1996) was a British diplomat, Ambassador to Iran at the time of the Iranian Revolution and Permanent Representative to the UN at the time of the Falklands War. Anthony Parsons was educated at King's School, Canterbury. He served as an artillery officer during the"
"by the minister. Furthermore, it was stated that ""where an official makes a mistake or causes some delay, but not on an important issue of policy and not where a claim to individual rights is seriously involved, the Minister acknowledges the mistake and he accepts the responsibility although he is not personally involved."" In 1982, Lord Carrington (then Foreign Secretary) and two other Foreign Office ministers resigned shortly after the invasion of the Falkland Islands. Later official reviews stated that, although there had been misjudgments within the Foreign Office, no responsibility attached to any individual within the government. However, in"
"and their allies. President Wilson aimed to broker a peace and sent his top aide, Colonel House, on repeated missions to the two sides, but each remained so confident of victory that they ignored peace proposals. When the German U-boat ""U-20"" sank the British liner on 7 May 1915 with 128 US citizens aboard, Wilson demanded an end to German attacks on passenger ships, and warned that the US would not tolerate unrestricted submarine warfare in violation of international law and of human rights. Wilson's Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, resigned, believing that the President's protests against the German"
"the House of Commons for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. This role was necessary because the Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, sat in the House of Lords. He resigned in April 1982, along with Lord Carrington, over the Falklands invasion. Atkins was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Knight Commander (KCMG) in the 1983 Dissolution Honours. He left the House of Commons in 1987 and was made a life peer as Baron Colnbrook of Waltham St Lawrence in the County of Berkshire. Atkins died from cancer on 4 October 1996 at the age of 74 in"
"Rex Hunt (governor) Sir Rex Masterman Hunt, (29 June 192611 November 2012) was a Royal Air Force pilot, British diplomat, and colonial administrator. He was Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice Admiral of the Falkland Islands (and concurrent High Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory) between 1980 and September 1985. Hunt became a household name during the Falklands War after the Argentine invasion of the islands, when he was briefly taken prisoner and temporarily removed from his position. Hunt was born in Redcar in the North Riding of Yorkshire (Redcar is now part of the Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority). After attending"
"Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, (17 February 1929 – 4 March 1993) was a British Conservative politician and government minister. As President of the Selsdon Group, a free-market lobby within the Conservative Party, he was closely aligned with Margaret Thatcher, and became one of her Ministers of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1979. Responsible for the Falkland Islands, he tried to resolve the long-running sovereignty issue with Argentina, which detected Britain’s reluctance to defend the territory, and later invaded it. As Secretary of State for Transport, Ridley performed a key"
"Sam Salt Rear Admiral James Frederick Thomas George ""Sam"" Salt, (19 April 1940 – 3 December 2009) was a senior Royal Navy officer of the late twentieth century. He was the Captain of during the Falklands War, the first British warship to be sunk by enemy action since the end of the Second World War. James Salt was born on 19 April 1940 in Yeovil in the county of Somerset. His mother was named Lillian, and he was the son of a Royal Naval officer, Lieutenant Commander George S. Salt, who was lost in action six months after his son's"
"Point 20 years before that had claimed her husband's life, and praising his bravery. Gavin Hamilton (British Army officer) Gavin John Hamilton, MC (15 May 1953 – 10 June 1982) was a British Army officer. He was the Officer Commanding 19 (Mountain) Troop, D Squadron, 22 Special Air Service during the Falklands War when he was killed in action in his 29th year whilst behind enemy lines on West Falkland. After graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Hamilton was commissioned as a subaltern with the Green Howards with the Service No.499793 in 1975, and served with the British Army"
"John Nott Sir John William Frederic Nott (born 1 February 1932) is a former British Conservative Party politician prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He featured heavily in the public eye as Secretary of State for Defence during the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the subsequent Falklands War. In 2016, he said David Cameron had poisoned the EU referendum debate. Born in Bideford, Devon, the son of Richard Nott and Phyllis (née Francis), Nott was educated at Bradfield College and was commissioned as a regular officer in the 2nd Gurkha Rifles (1952–1956). He served in the"
"Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, KG, PC, DL, FZS (25 April 1862 – 7 September 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey (he was the 3rd Baronet Grey of Fallodon), was a British Liberal statesman and the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War. An adherent of the ""New Liberalism"", he served as foreign secretary from 1905 to 1916, the longest continuous tenure of any person in that office. He is probably best remembered for his ""the lamps are going out"" remark on 3"
"Diana Gould – Margaret Thatcher exchange An exchange on 24 May 1983 between Diana Gould, an English schoolteacher and former Women's Royal Naval Service meteorological officer, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was voted in 1999 as one of Britain's most memorable television spots. Gould confronted Thatcher on the BBC current-affairs programme ""Nationwide"" over the sinking of the ""General Belgrano"" during the 1982 Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina. Gould was appearing as a member of the public on ""Nationwide""s ""On the Spot"" live election special. The ""ARA General Belgrano"", an Argentine war ship, sank with the loss of"
"the party remained ahead of both Labour and the Conservatives. However, following the outbreak of the Falklands War on 2 April 1982, the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher soared from third to first place in the public opinion polls. The standing of the SDP–Liberal Alliance and Labour Party declined. By this stage, however, the SDP–Liberal Alliance already 30 MPs in parliament - virtually all of them defectors from Labour, joined by just the one Conservative MP. Labour lost Bermondsey, one of their ten safest seats, at a by-election in February 1983 to Liberal candidate Simon Hughes: the sitting Labour MP"
"20 MPs from the left-wing Tribune Group, which split as a result. Healey attracted just enough support from other unions, constituency parties and Labour MPs to win. Healey was Shadow Foreign Secretary during most of the 1980s, a job he coveted. He believed Foot was initially too willing to support military action after the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina in April 1982. He accused Thatcher of ""glorying in slaughter"", and had to withdraw the remark (he later claimed he had meant to say ""conflict""). Healey was retained in the shadow cabinet by Neil Kinnock, who succeeded Foot after the"
"at least ""his great fortune he had damaged: by such profuse play, that his house was often full of bailiffs."" Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath KG PC (13 September 1734 – November 1796) was a British politician who held office under George III serving as Southern Secretary, Northern Secretary and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Between 1751 and 1789 he was known as The Viscount Weymouth. He is often best known for his role in the Falklands Crisis of 1770. He was the elder son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (1710–1751), and the"
"details, Peter Jenkins claims that Heseltine lost his cool and proclaimed ""I can no longer be a member of this Cabinet"". Heseltine then walked out of Downing Street and announced his resignation to the assembled media. Thatcher then adjourned the Cabinet for a brief break. George Younger was then offered and accepted the office of Secretary of State for Defence, which Heseltine had just relinquished. The Prime Minister's office then requested Malcolm Rifkind to take up Younger's previous job, Secretary of State for Scotland, which he accepted. Cabinet then resumed. At 4 pm that day at the Ministry of Defence"
"the Falklands, but Thatcher avoided repeating that it had not. She said the full facts would be published in about 30 years, adding: ""I think it could only be in Britain that a Prime Minister was accused of sinking an enemy ship that was a danger to our navy, when my main motive was to protect the boys in our navy."" Gould suggested the sinking had put an end to a Peruvian peace proposal, but according to Thatcher, the proposal had not arrived in London until after the sinking. At several points the women clearly became irritated with one another."
"disputed. Betts claims he was forced to leave by British forces, with the support of many Falkland Islanders, as a result of his support for Argentina during the war. However, in a 2015 interview with the ""Daily Mail"", Betts's second wife claims he left the Falklands of his own accord, abandoning her and their children, because he was having an extramarital affair with an Argentine maid whom he had met when working with LADE. John Fowler, the former deputy editor of ""Penguin News"", pointed out in an editorial that other islanders who collaborated with the Argentine military during the war"
"had assured Galtieri that the United States would remain neutral in the event of war, despite an explicit message to the contrary from the American Secretary of State, Alexander Haig (by then, the British Royal Navy was advancing toward the islands). Costa Méndez was portrayed by Vernon Dobtcheff in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis's controversial ""The Falklands Play"". Nicanor Costa Méndez Nicanor Costa Méndez (October 30, 1922 – August 3, 1992) was an Argentine diplomat. Costa Méndez was born into a privileged background in Buenos Aires, in 1922. He attended the University of Buenos Aires, graduating with a"
"and Commonwealth Office. From 1976, under James Callaghan's premiership, he was Minister of State at the Foreign Office until Labour was defeated at the 1979 general election. In a debate on the Falklands War on 3 April 1982, Rowlands revealed that the British were reading Argentine diplomatic traffic. Rowlands was criticised (but not prosecuted as per parliamentary privilege) for revealing this intelligence source, as the likely result of his disclosure was that the Argentinians would secure their systems and the intelligence would dry up. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2002"
"on a plane to Montevideo, Uruguay. He remained in this forced exile during the occupation. After the war, Hunt resumed his work as Governor of the Falkland Islands, continuing until 1985. Hunt wrote about his time in the Falklands in his book ""My Falkland Days"" (published in 1992). He was chairman of the Falkland Islands Association for many years. He retired as chairman in 2004 and moved to Elton, County Durham, a few miles away from his native Redcar. The British government announced that Hunt died in hospital in Stockton-on-Tees on 11 November 2012, aged 86. Upon his death, British"