James Forsyth James Forsyth

The Tory modernisers are Margaret Thatcher’s true heirs

issue 13 April 2013

Margaret Thatcher’s death has inevitably prompted intense reflection among Tories about what lessons the party should learn from her time in office. ‘We must finish the job’ is the refrain on the lips of Thatcherite ministers, and there are more of those today than there were a year ago. The experience of office has had a radicalising effect on the Cameroons.

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