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This is the later analysis of the Belgrano affair and this is what I said about the Christmas Invasion parallels in an unpublished essay from 2010:

Secondly, at the end of The Christmas Invasion27[first broadcast 25 December 2005] he initiates a whispering campaign to depose Harriet Jones, in revenge for her action in ordering Torchwood to shoot down the retreating Sycorax vessel, a possible reference to Margaret Thatcher’s alleged order to sink the Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands campaign28[The Ninth Doctor, in World War Three, is troubled by a sense of familiarity about Harriet Jones, until he recognises her as the Prime Minister who “served three terms” and created Britain’s Golden Age. Although Harriet Jones, as initially presented, is the antithesis of Thatcher, being an unambitious left-leaning back-bencher who voted against the Iraq War, the Thatcher parallels do not stop with the possible Belgrano reference. Thatcher also served three consecutive terms – the first modern Prime Minister to do so – and her downfall, too, began with allegations that she “looked tired”.]