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It is argued that from 1945 until the arrival of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, there was a broad multi-partisan national consensus on social and economic policy, especially regarding the welfare state, nationalised health services, educational reform, a mixed economy, government regulation, Keynesian macroeconomic policies, and full employment ...
The lady's not for turning" was a phrase used by Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister, in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference on 10 October 1980. The term has thus been applied as a name to the speech in its entirety. It is considered a defining speech in Thatcher's political development, [1] becoming something of a Thatcherite ...
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher [nb 2] (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
Sadly, Britain's former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher passed away Monday morning. In remembrance of the "Iron Lady," The Wall Street Journal ran a collection of some of Thatcher's most notable ...
Thatcherism represents a systematic, decisive rejection and reversal of the post-war consensus inside Great Britain in terms of governance, whereby the major political parties largely agreed on the central themes of Keynesianism, the welfare state, nationalised industry, and close regulation of the British economy before Thatcher's rise to ...
Margaret Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady for her tough fiscal policies (PA) And Thatcher is someone who got it right, according to Reeves who wrote: “Well-coiffured hair, bright blue suits ...
The Margaret Thatcher Foundation, which reproduces the full text of the speech on its website and characterises the nickname "Sermon on the Mound" as tasteless, [f] rates it as having key importance as a statement of Thatcher's views on "civil liberties, education, taxation, family, race, immigration, nationality, religion & morality, social ...
Institutional care was the target of widespread criticism during the 1960s and 1970s, [1] but it was not until 1983 that the government of Margaret Thatcher adopted a new policy of care after the Audit Commission published a report called 'Making a Reality of Community Care' [2] which outlined the advantages of domiciliary care.