Even after her death, Margaret Thatcher has continued to excite bitter
controversy. Her supporters felt that she could do no wrong. Many others
condemned her policies as divisive and destructive. Here it is argued
that she was a pragmatic rather than a principled politician, that she
in fact performed innumerable u-turns, and that she had more luck than
she merited. Despite how some choose to portray her now, opinion polls
during her time indicated she was one of the twentieth-century's most
unpopular Prime Ministers and in each election she fought as leader,
more people voted against the Tories, than for them. Eventually she was
ditched by her own Conservative Party, when they realised she had become
an electoral liability. Much that was wrong with the "broken Britain"
that the Con-Dem coalition talked about can be traced back to policies
that were initiated during the time that Margaret Thatcher was Prime
Minister. This book is an attempt to put the record straight.