We hardly ever publish opinion columns but we thought it could be interesting to publish two articles showing – even partly – the terms of the heated debate on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy, which has been going on in the UK since she died. The first article is the story of those times, which Robbie Gilbert, special advisor to Jim Prior, Employment Secretary of State (1979-1981) during the first Thatcher administration, agreed to tell us. (Ref. 130244)
That Britain demonstrates stable labour relations and possesses one of the least regulated labour markets in the world is seen today as a well-established reality. What else would you expect of a nation that has been for so long the champion of freedom, market economics and democracy?
Before Margaret Thatcher, things were very different.
It is difficult now to describe just how different, let alone to convey how hopeless seemed the chances of escaping a miserable reputation as the sick man of Eur
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