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Thatcherite believers suggesting that she had become too excessive. Howe had been a friend of Thatcher since they first met at Grays Inn, and the Inns of Court Conservative Association in 1957. Only Howe and Sir Keith Joseph had continually supported her economic policies since 1975. The result was a leadership challenge being swiftly announced by her former Defence Secretary,
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office and churning out a stream of pamphlets designed to influence academics, journalists and politicians to the view that the free market is the most efficient and liberal way to organise social affairs, and that government intervention is often wasteful. They were widely dismissed until 1964, when
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became the champion of free market economics in
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MP drew up a plan for the privatisation of
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policies used to defeat inflation caused large-scale unemployment. Riots broke out across
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also complimented the series, particularly on its heavyweight cast and warmly welcomed its repeat showing the following year.
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