WHERE’S REFORM’S BEEF?

Is Britain on the brink? In the late 1970s we certainly seemed to be. All the clouds of the twentieth century were by then raining down upon us. Our empire was gone, our economy was bust and our politics was borderline post-parliamentary, as ministers bargained, generally in vain, with trades union barons before they presumed to govern. All of this changed with Margaret Thatcher. Indeed, such is the scale of her achievement in arresting Britain’s precipitous decline that few can properly see the...