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Iron Lady

David Frum on the legacy of Britain's 'Iron Lady'

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"Me grandfather walked 50 miles in clogs to find a job in this here town, and you can't expect me to move somewhere else now!"

That semi-apocryphal quote aptly described the Britain of the 1970s.

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