Dundonald House

All three were helicoptered in the Aldergrove airport, where, joining Faulkner, they took a plane bound for RAF Northolt.

Behind them, they left a world where ministerial cars no longer worked because of a lack of petrol, where the routes were closed off by the strikers in depth, and they had to be helicoptered from army bases to cabinet meetings and back, where the writ did not run even as far as Dundonald House.

with a body of dedicated civil servants served them.

Something had to be done to wrest control back and now, finally, events were taking a new course and a strike back using all the powers of the British government was about to begin.