Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

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It would have attracted the same criticism that David Cameron got when Iain Duncan Smith was doing it in the coalition government.

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Nor do I know how long the present model of the Chinese economy will be able to survive and grow without greater liberties being given to people. In the process, Margaret Thatcher became one of the founders, with Ronald Reagan, of a school of conservative conviction politics, which has had a powerful and enduring impact on politics in Britain and the United States and earned her a higher international profile than any British politician since Winston Churchill. Whilst she was without doubt an extraordinary woman, there is a sense of her being in the right place at the right time.The fact that, in the late 1980s, we at last had a prime minister who saw that there were things wrong with the European Union gave great momentum to people like Nigel Farage. He sat on my wife’s knee for most of the first course and then I took him for a while, so she could eat.

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Whenever she came here we would ask two old treasures, Vera and Edna, in from the village to help wait at table and she would always say, ‘Now, the ladies will want their photographs taken with me.It was only victory in the Falklands followed by a landslide in the khaki election that followed it that gave her the unassailable status in her own party that lasted almost a decade. The UK, the US and the World are lucky that there was a Margaret Thatcher, and we could use someone like her again right now. During her time as prime minister, she focused on the characteristics of moral absolutism, nationalism, and the rights of the individual versus that of the state --- declaring, "There is no such thing as society" in 1987.

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The economy continued to improve during the 1983-87 Parliament and the policy of economic liberalisation was extended. In her mid-twenties she ran as the Conservative candidate for the strong Labour seat of Dartford at the General Elections of 1950 and 1951, winning national publicity as the youngest woman candidate in the country.Her legacy remains the core of modern British politics: the world economic crisis since 2008 has revived many of the arguments of the 1980s, keeping her name at the centre of political debate in Britain. Moore brilliantly depicts her determination and boldness from the very beginning of her political career and gives the fullest account of her wresting the Tory leadership from former prime minister Edward Heath at a moment when no senior figure in the party dared to challenge him. Defeated at a General Election in February 1974, the Heath Government left a legacy of inflation and industrial strife. Only Willie Whitelaw, Keith Joseph and Denis are beyond criticism, plus of course Bernard Ingham and Charles Powell. So, she brought some sort of internal market into the health service and abolished area health authorities in the early 1980s.

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With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century. Apparently it was an Army phrase—it referred to the practice of very junior officers having to do their own laundry. I think when he said that Hayek didn’t really understand how Britain worked, that was something at the front of his mind, that Hayek didn’t understand that we had to have a national health service, because we weren’t a brutal country like the Austria that had invited Hitler in. In a famous letter to The Times newspaper, 360 economists wrote a letter arguing the government should change its policies immediately. Rising through the ranks of this man’s world, she led the Conservative Party to victory in 1979, becoming Britain's first woman prime minister.

By the end of Margaret Thatcher's first term, unemployment in Britain was more than three million and it began to fall only in 1986.