1. Margaret Thatcher and the Thatcher Revolution Myth
... during the political consensus), by decreasing government spending by 7%, it also led to the liberalisation of the economy. Callaghan's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference admitted that governments could not continue spending their way into full employment. Although his attempt to limit public spending and adopting money supply targets failed at successfully curbing high inflation rates, politicians ... as "revolutionary"." Furthermore, the industrial public sector (that was mostly nationalised after the First World War) was clearly ruining Britain because of the dangerous ...
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