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Britain Transformed A-Level History Thatcher Summary Notes: Politics
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Thatcher: politics and party
develop

🌧 Wets: heath, socialism, Mps like Prior, one nation conservatives, upper class, elite




Reshuffle 1981 (purging of the wets)
Prior was employment secretary → Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Dumping
ground) As he criticised monetarism ; reflects Thatchers unwillingness to change

Sacked Ian Gilmour, Lord Soames, Mark Carlisle

Promoted thatcherites such as tebbit

Led to thatcherites being dominant in cabinet

Thatcher viewed herself as a radical in a party of moderates

Older consensus now in minority




Heseltine
Was secretary of environment and promoted to council house sales in 1980

H challenged thatcher in cabinet ab unemployment, wanted to intervene:
Enterprise Zones and Development Corporations

Resembled traditional ideas, led tto policy disagreements

He was alienated

Thatcher presidential style, unhealthy



🚁 The Westland Affair 1985: serious financial difficulty, divide on being bought by
Sikorsky which was free market but would lead to dependency on US




Thatcher: politics and party develop 1

, the outcome led to Heseltine’s resignation: shows Thatcher presidential style




The Poll Tax 1989/90
Led to widespread anger and large scale protest

All Britain Anti poll tax federation organised mass demonstration in Trafalgar Square
90- 200,000 protestors

Turned into riot due to police presence

Increaed tax bills, many refused and unable to pay, pensions jailed; South Yorkshire
police said impossible to arrest everyone, unenforceable; shows her uncompromising
style




Growing unpopularity
Interest rates 15%

Water privatisation

Party divisions about the EEC

Howe’s resignation: former chancellor and deputy, due to anti-Europe policies

Victory of john major, not wet, similar policies, least pro-European




Major
Poll tax
Short term: increased government grant to local authorities to reduce poll tax bills by
50% 91

Heseltine hired to rethink the poll tax
rejoined the link between local taxation and property value
had exemptions for circumstances

Abandoned Thatchers principal of taxpayer burden of government spending



Thatcher: politics and party develop 2

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