Thumb through the index of almost any study of the Thatcher years biographical, scholarly or journalistic and you will come across the name of Sir Alfred Sherman. In her memoirs Lady Thatcher herself pays tribute to Sherman's 'brilliance, the force and clarity of his mind, his breadth of reading and his skills as a ruthless polemicist . She credits him with a central role in her achievements, especially as Leader of the Opposition but also after she became Prime Minister. Born in 1919 in London s East End, until 1948 Sherman was a Communist and fought in the Spanish Civil War. But he ended...

Thumb through the index of almost any study of the Thatcher years biographical, scholarly or journalistic and you will come across the name of Sir Alfred Sherman. In her memoirs Lady Thatcher herself pays tribute to Sherman's 'brilliance, the force and clarity of his mind, his breadth of reading and his skills as a ruthless polemicist . She credits him with a central role in her achievements, especially as Leader of the Opposition but also after she became Prime Minister. Born in 1919 in London s East End, until 1948 Sherman was a Communist and fought in the Spanish Civil War. But he ended...