Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide

‘If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and would achieve nothing’

Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of Great Britain between 1979 and 1990. Never afraid of making enemies to get the job done, she oversaw some of the most controversial changes in British political history - from  the Falklands War to the miners’ strike, the Poll Tax, the sale of council houses and the deregulation of the financial sector.

Her legacy still looms large over British politics – and far beyond. But how genuinely radical was she, and was ‘Thatcherism’ a coherent doctrine at all?