User:Dumelow/Purge of the wets

Thatcher in 1981

The purge of the wets was a 1981 cabinet reshuffle carried out by British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/114178

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/30/thatcher-battled-cabinet-wets-national-archives

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/few-regrets-over-the-purge-of-dissenters-margaret-thatcher-s-recollections-of-a-turbulent-decade-at-the-helm-of-the-conservative-party-and-britain-are-published-today-removing-the-wets-1511494.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17397224

https://news.sky.com/story/lord-prior-last-of-thatchers-wets-dies-aged-89-10693860

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Britain_under_Thatcher/_CesAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Purge+of+the+wets%22&pg=PA19&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Thatcher_s_Trial/_y9wCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Purge+of+the+wets%22&pg=PT135&printsec=frontcover