Margaret Thatcher — "The lady's not for turning."
The lady's not for turning.
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"I am not a fan of the welfare state. I think it is an expensive way of trying to do things which could be done better by voluntary effort."
"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
"I came to office with one paramount aim: to change the national mood. From despondency to hope, from dependency to self-reliance."
"You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning."
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About Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
British Prime Minister (1979-1990) whose free-market reforms and confrontation with trade unions defined the late-20th-century right. Closely associated with Ronald Reagan (her closest international ally). For an intellectual contrast, see Tony Benn, Labour cabinet minister and democratic-socialist figurehead — Benn was the loudest parliamentary opposition to Thatcherism throughout the 1980s. His diaries and Thatcher's autobiography are the two opposing histories of the period — Britain's class politics is structured around which view was right.