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The Ghost of Maggie Thatcher

A cash-for-influence scandal and a major airline strike have hastened Gordon Brown’s tailspin. Is Britain on the brink of a Tory revival that would make the Iron Lady proud?

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Margaret Thatcher once said that, "the trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Britain's Labour Party may have shed much of its socialist baggage since it returned to respectability and power in 1997, but with the country running a deficit that will reach 13...

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