Fifty years of Thatcher: how did she win?
Not Another One
Richards Green Montgomerie Martin
4.7 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On 11 February 1975 Margaret Thatcher became Conservative leader. No one knew then how dominant she would become, to the point that even Keir Starmer was citing her this week as a model change maker. In the first of a three part special we examine - from our different perspectives - the impact of Thatcher on the country and her party. We explore Thatcher as leader of the opposition. Was she a radical on the right from the beginning? How did she manage her party and develop policies? How did she present herself? Was her victory inevitable in 1979?
Parts 2 and 3 to follow over the next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Tim Montgomery, Ian Martin and Miranda Green. |
| 0:18.9 | And for the next three episodes, we're going to be doing something |
| 0:22.2 | different. It's the 50th anniversary of the day when Margaret Thatcher became leader of the |
| 0:30.8 | Conservatives. It might not be the day because you'll be listening at different times. |
| 0:34.6 | But anyway, she became leader in February 1975. And we thought we would do |
| 0:39.9 | something different and explore a big theme from political history, her trajectory from that moment |
| 0:46.4 | on. And we're going to do it in three parts, beginning today, where we're going to look at her rise |
| 0:52.8 | from leader of the opposition when many didn't |
| 0:55.2 | think she would ever even become prime minister and then we're going to look at her period in power |
| 1:00.5 | and then analyze the fallout in episode three so that's the plan before we get going |
| 1:07.6 | how many of us knew her at all? |
| 1:11.6 | Did Miranda, did you know her? |
| 1:13.6 | No, I didn't know her at all. |
| 1:15.6 | I was in the same room as her only once. |
| 1:19.6 | But it was fascinating, just because I was invited as a young graduate to a dinner where she was the guest of honour |
| 1:29.8 | and it was at the Royal Academy actually in Piccadilly and she gave a little impromptu |
| 1:36.5 | you know when you work for a politician you put on their itinerary SFW just say a few words |
| 1:42.6 | and clearly with Margaret Thatcher you you wouldn't just get any few words. |
| 1:48.3 | She just wasn't someone who was ever shy about being forthright in her opinion. |
| 1:51.9 | So she stood up and basically told us all that modern art was rubbish. |
| 1:56.0 | And, you know, all of the crap on the, she didn't say this. |
| 1:59.3 | But, you know, she sort of said, well, you know, are people being properly trained? |
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