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Both Trump and Britain’s Labour government need a word with the ghost of Margaret Thatcher.
Conservative conference in 1983: Pym, Thatcher and Michael Heseltine.
Photographer: PA Images/Getty
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Not for the first time, the ghost of Margaret Thatcher hangs over British politics. Back in 1983, as her government was hurtling towards reelection, the cabinet minister Francis Pym warned that “landslides, on the whole, do not produce successful governments.” Thatcher swiftly nixed that suggestion, saying, “I think I could handle a landslide majority all right.”