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Nigel Lawson – the 1980s Tory Chancellor

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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

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In 1982, Milton Friedman finally fell out publicly with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over his monetarist ideology that had deepened the UK recession

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Celebrity supporters of Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher had some prominent celebrity supporters in the early 1980s as Tony McMahon discovers in the archives

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Inflation and unemployment under Thatcher

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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

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Thatcher purges moderates in 1983

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In 1983, Thatcher emerged triumphant from a general election and set about a purge of moderates from her cabinet as Tony McMahon reports

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