Iron Lad – How Thatcherite is Starmer really?

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Starmer’s referencing of Thatcher has enraged the left – but is it anything beyond symbolic politicking? And is he really Thatcherite at all? Andrew Harrison speaks to Robert Saunders, a reader in modern British history at Queen Mary University of London, about the legacy of Thatcher and how it ties in with modern Labour policy. • “It’s worth remembering that Margaret Thatcher herself borrowed ideas from the left.” – Robert Saunders • “I think Thatcher would be quite alarmed by what she would see in a Reeves-Starmer manifesto.” – Robert Saunders • “Truss and Sunak were giving two different memories of Margaret Thatcher in the last Tory leadership contest… it was like two branches of the same religion.” – Robert Saunders • “Margaret Thatcher has become a myth. And the nature of myths means every generation can give different tales about them.” – Robert Saunders We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. Support us on Patreon. Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson and artwork by James Parrett. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.0	Back in the 80s I can remember hearing about a parent who was at the end of their tether
1:18.4	shouting as an angry toddler if you don't calm, Margaret Thatcher will get you.
1:23.0	Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990,
1:26.0	during which time she presided over the Falklands War,
1:29.0	the Minor Strike, and a programme of privatization and deregulation, which changed Britain out of all
1:34.3	recognition the Green Gross's daughter from Grantham remains Britain's most divisive
1:39.0	figure hated on the left worshipped on the right She still casts a shadow over our politics 33 years after she left office.
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1:51.5	meaningful change in the UK.
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