Word: thatcherism
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Mansfield proposed Margaret H. Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, as a conservative woman worthy of future consideration...
...have to do is to look around the scene and ask yourself who is the mightiest woman of our time and that would be Margaret Thatcher," Mansfield said...
...landslide victory. His 72% approval rating in the polls is the highest first-year score for any British Prime Minister of either party since World War II. His Labour government is so far ahead of the opposition Tories in the national polls that the party of Margaret Thatcher, which dominated British politics for a generation, has almost disappeared as an effective political force. Blair is arguably the most successful politician on the face of the earth...
...Modernization" is the young Prime Minister's mantra. After Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, he waged a bitter fight to reform it, moving it away from its tired socialist roots and forcing it to embrace elements of Thatcherism. As Prime Minister, he has embarked on a mission to modernize Britain and its politics. The grand design is not entirely clear. "He's not an ideologist," says Oxford University political scientist David Marquand, "but he wants an ideology. In a kind of intuitive way he knows what he's against and perhaps what he is for." Blair...
...Neither the three celebrities that have declared their intentions, nor former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten -- another potential candidate for mayor -- are anywhere near the top of early opinion polls. First in London?s heart is ?Red? Ken Livingstone, the extreme-left-wing ex-council leader whom Mrs. Thatcher ousted in the early '80s. Red Ken?s elevation to the new job would be an enormous embarrassment for Tony Blair, who has renounced the old-style socialism that his Labor colleague Livingstone still sticks up for. The election is set for late 1999 -- and if opinions stay the same...