Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

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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.

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The Community Charge, in particular, became a serious political problem, as local councils took advantage of the introduction of a new system to increase tax rates, blaming the increase on the Thatcher Government. And don't forget defending against (which implies retaliating against) geopolitical aggression when the rest of the world demands appeasement - and all of the above with upcoming elections forever at the back of everyone's minds. 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’d make them read all eight volumes, rather than going to chokey—that would teach them a lesson they wouldn’t forget. The Heath Government itself took a beating from events during its tenure (1970-74) and disappointed many.She came to our house for Sunday lunch on about half a dozen occasions from the late 1990s until she became too infirm.

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The budget of spring 1981, increasing taxes at the lowest point of the recession, offended conventional Keynesian economic thinking, but it made possible a cut in interest rates and demonstrated this newly found determination. The Downing Street Years is a memoir by Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, covering her premiership of 1979 to 1990. Inflation is caused by printing money and, if the growth in the supply of money exceeds the growth in GDP, we’re going to have inflation, because there will be too much money chasing too few goods. And I can’t imagine that there’s very much anyone would want to know about Mrs Thatcher that’s not in it.And Keith Joseph, on Enoch’s suggestion, took all these IEA pamphlets home, read them, and realized that Powellism, as it was then known, was the way forward. The British privatisations of the 1980s were the first of their kind and proved influential across the world. Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician, bringing together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power.