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  • proper noun The political ideology attributed to the governments of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990), characterised by, among other things, a free market economy, privatisation and low taxation.

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Thatcher +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Brown won't use the term Thatcherism because he is scared many people will say 'actually that's what we need right now, to clear up another Labour mess'.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Brown won't use the term Thatcherism because he is scared many people will say 'actually that's what we need right now, to clear up another Labour mess'.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Chicago School dogma became known as Thatcherism in Britain, but its prime minister wasn't an early adherent.

    Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" 2007

  • Chicago School dogma became known as Thatcherism in Britain, but its prime minister wasn't an early adherent.

    Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" 2007

  • There are some who say that Thatcherism is not, and never was, a coherent set of detailed policies but, instead, a series of values and instincts that have evolved into policies.

    An Industrialist's View of Britain 1984

  • The state capitalism that, in the 1980s and 1990s, we called Thatcherism or Reaganism was nothing approaching a free market.

    The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG 2010

  • The state capitalism that, in the 1980s and 1990s, we called Thatcherism or Reaganism was nothing approaching a free market.

    Brits at their Best 2010

  • The state capitalism that, in the 1980s and 1990s, we called Thatcherism or Reaganism was nothing approaching a free market.

    The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG Dr Sean Gabb 2010

  • The state capitalism that, in the 1980s and 1990s, we called Thatcherism or Reaganism was nothing approaching a free market.

    Brits at their Best David 2010

  • The reviewer brilliantly summarised the work of Damien Hirst et al: "It has often been remarked that Young British Art was a cultural offshoot of Thatcherism, which is a polite way of saying that the artists of Hirst's generation were a bunch of enterprising self-publicists, big on force of personality but small on talent".

    Archive 2009-02-01 Burke's Corner 2009

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