Margaret Thatcher a towering figure in our own imaginations
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- Published: Saturday, 11 May 2013 16:42
- Written by Jonathan Walker
The economy of the West Midlands was devastated under Margaret Thatcher's Government - and it still hasn't recovered.
That was the view not of a Labour left-winger or trade unionist, but of Conservative MP Peter Tapsell who rose to proclaim his judgment in a Commons debate.
He’d been listening to a Tory colleague talking in glowing terms about the Budget delivered in 1981, during Lady Thatcher’s time in office.
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