Nigel Lawson – the 1980s Tory Chancellor
In the 1980s, I lived with Nigel Lawson’s nephew while his uncle was Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer and architect of her financial policies.
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Milton Friedman falls out with Thatcher
In 1982, Milton Friedman finally fell out publicly with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over his monetarist ideology that had deepened the UK recession
Celebrity supporters of Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher had some prominent celebrity supporters in the early 1980s as Tony McMahon discovers in the archives
Inflation and unemployment under Thatcher
Both unemployment and inflation soared in the first two years of the Thatcher government though the Tories were open to a rise in the jobless figures
Thatcher purges moderates in 1983
In 1983, Thatcher emerged triumphant from a general election and set about a purge of moderates from her cabinet as Tony McMahon reports