The celebrations of the thirtieth anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's ascent to power have had a surreal quality. The moist panegyrics from David Cameron and Boris Johnson - followed by an army of cheering commentators, and a distant, shameful echo from Gordon Brown - have been filled with statements that are the opposite of the truth. Yet there they stand, unchallenged, as the road-map for our future.
The defences of Margaret Thatcher invariably have three prongs. She made it...
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