Word: frontbench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent months, Mrs. Thatcher has become the Conservatives' principal frontbench spokesman on economic and tax policy. A feisty debater, she has repeatedly discomfited Labor ministers with relentlessly logical and prodigiously well-informed attacks. Her continuous salvos against the Wilson government's proposals for higher tax rates on inherited wealth finally provoked Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey to call her "La Pasionaria of Privilege."* Mrs. Thatcher's rejoinder: "Some Chancellors are macroeconomic, some are fiscal; this one is just plain cheap...
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