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Michael Howard was Home secretary and leader of the Conservative Party in the 2005 General Election. In 1990 when Margaret Thatcher fell he was her Employment Secretary - and an avowed admirer. But loyalty and admiration could not blind him to what he saw as fact - The Iron Lady had irretrievably lost the support of Conservative Party MPs. This forced him and many like minded colleagues - to give his candid view, one to one, that it was time go. She was, he recalls, like a wounded bird. Her fall is especially galling as he's convinced she could have kept the top job - had the campaign in the leadership election been well run. Instead her campaign manager - the MP Peter Morrison - a man now suspected of being a paedophile - was "useless." Simple competence, he believes, could have saved her - and set history on a different path