Ideologies / Neoliberal / Margaret Thatcher
§ The minds · 1925–2013 · United Kingdom · Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
There is no alternative
Privatisation, monetarism, the enterprise society.
Economic+35
SocialistMarket
Governance+10
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−30
TraditionalProgressive
The prime minister whose privatisation, deregulation and union confrontation made neoliberal economics the new common sense of British politics.
social
Culturally conservative — Victorian values and self-reliance.
economic
Privatised industry, curbed unions, and freed markets.
governance
Strong central will to push reform; firm on order and the state's core.
Notable for
- Privatised state industries
- Broke the miners' strike
- Reshaped the postwar consensus
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