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Thatcherism Articles

How the Conservatives fell back in love with Thatcherism

The morning after Margaret Thatcher passed away, listeners woke up to hear her voice on the radio. This time last year, for a short period of remembrance, her words were broadcast everywhere. My generation are too young to remember Thatcher as prime minister or...
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Diagnosis done. Time for a cure

The good news: it was a speech Tony Blair could easily have given. The semi-approving invocation of Margaret Thatcher, the silence where Labour’s past ought to be, the promise to break down old institutions and reorient public services: it was all there. Now for the...
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Out of friends in the north

The tide of history is against Tories hoping to rebuild in the north, says Lewis Baston Labour has been agonising over its ‘southern discomfort’ for over 20 years. Some Conservatives, such as David Skelton, have only just started to think seriously about their...
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Thatcher, Thatcherism and Labour

For those of us of a certain age, watching the BBC programme screened on the night of Margaret Thatcher’s death was like watching a film about all our yesterdays. Political events help to define a generation, and it was all there – her 1979 victory and the words,...
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