Lady Thatcher and the IEA

Elected to Parliament in 1959 she planned a maiden speech on monetary policy! But then she placed very high in the ballot for private members’ bills. So, in an extraordinarily rare event in British politics, she made her maiden speech from the front bench and had 30 not 10 minutes. She planned on a bill to reform trade unions but her Whips blanched and refused. So she piloted through a bill to extend the rights of the press to examine and critique spending decisions by local authorities. No more routinely meeting in secret after Margaret’s bill became the law. Alf was not amused!

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