Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

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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. She came to our house for Sunday lunch on about half a dozen occasions from the late 1990s until she became too infirm. She also met and married quite a rich man, so she could read for the bar with the luxury of having plenty of money behind her. Margaret Thatcher accumulated huge prestige over the course of the 1980s and often compelled the respect even of her bitterest critics. 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.

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Her response was characteristic: at the Conservative Party's annual conference in October 1986, her speech foreshadowed a mass of reforms for a third Thatcher Government.I went in to have a long chat with her, which was all fine and dandy and then, about a week later, I was asked back to interview her, which I did with a colleague, George Jones. So, she brought some sort of internal market into the health service and abolished area health authorities in the early 1980s. She was helped by her enemies-the "Wets " who lacked a leader to moderate her, the new SDP and an ineffectual, divided Labour Party. Drawing on an extraordinary cache of letters to her sister Muriel, Moore illuminates Thatcher’s youth, her relationship with her parents, and her early romantic attachments, including her first encounters with Denis Thatcher and their courtship and marriage. The IMF agreed with him, which is why they stopped Healey spending money in 1976 and introduced massive spending cuts.

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The government began to pursue a policy of selling state assets, which in total had amounted to more than 20 per cent of the economy when the Conservatives came to power in 1979. And if anyone wanted to understand—years later—the failings of anti-Thatcherism, this book brings them out absolutely perfectly. She won three successive General Elections and served as British Prime Minister for more than eleven years (1979-90), a record unmatched in the twentieth century. I put him on my knee and Mrs T gurgled with him and played with him and then she started to cut my food up for me, saying to my son, ‘Daddy’s got to eat, too, you know.The social life of the family was lived largely within the close community of the local congregation, bounded by strong traditions of self-help, charitable work, and personal truthfulness. You mentioned earlier that you had asked Mrs Thatcher, which she clearly didn’t appreciate, why she hadn’t reformed the welfare state. There were lots of adverts that went on and on and on she was getting very impatient, and said, ‘Do we have to have all these advertisements? 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. We then move from the early days of her election as a MP to placements in the shadow-cabinet and standing as a leadership candidate to replace Edward (Ted) Heath.