In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked, at a dinner for a Conservative politician Conor Burns, what her greatest achievement was. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.” (Conor Burns, April 11, 2008) Not privatisation, not the Falklands, not the taming of … Continue reading Thatcherism’s greatest achievement