An old spectre is haunting Britain yet again – the spectre of Thatcherism... Rishi Sunak says he is a Thatcherite, and so do almost all those jostling to replace him... Most other Conservative MPs remain Thatcherite in their basic assumptions... her hegemony is more complete now in conservative parts of Britain than it ever was during her contentious leadership... Even more strikingly, her iconic status is also being sustained by Labour's most senior figures.
Last November, the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said: 'My generation of women, of course we have been influenced by her.' In December, Keir Starmer said that she sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism. Last month, the shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, said she was a visionary leader for the UK – no doubt about it.
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