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January 9, 2013

UK Needs a Dose of Margaret Thatcher

Philip Johnston, Daily Telegraph

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Thirty years ago this week, the finishing touches were being put to a report that would revolutionise the British economy. A Birmingham University economist, Stephen Littlechild, had been asked by the Thatcher government to work out a way to privatise state-owned British Telecom.

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