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Title: The Thatcher Era


1
The Thatcher Era
2
Limitations on Parliamentary Power
  • EEC
  • NATO
  • International tariff agreements
  • IMF loans
  • Northern Ireland
  • Strikes
  • QUANGOS.
  • Administrative law

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Arthur Scargill
  • Head of Yorkshire NUM, 1974-81
  • President, NUM, 1981-2002
  • Founder, Socialist Labour Party

5
James Callaghan
  • 1912-2005
  • Prime Minister 1976-79

6
Margaret Thatcher
  • Born 1925
  • Chemist, Barrister
  • MP 1959-1992
  • Education Secretary 1970-74
  • Conservative Party Leader 1975-1990
  • Prime Minister 1979-1990

7
Conservative Philosophy 1975
8
Changes
  • 50 marginal tax rate
  • Denationalization program
  • Trade union privileges curbed
  • No wage-price control
  • Freed movement of currency
  • Home buying encouraged
  • Vastly decreased deficit
  • De-industrialization
  • Big Item curbing public expenditure.

9
Government Waste
10
Response to critics of her policy
11
1983 Election
  • Keynesian consensus broken
  • Falklands War

12
Conservative Election Broadcast 1983
13
Michael Foot
  • Labour Party Leader 1980-83

14
Poll Tax Riots
15
Thatcher on Socialism
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