The Thatcher governments

Leadership,

what was Thatcher’s style of Leadership?

• she was a conviction politician and was a dismissive of the post-war consensus

• he policies were reflection of her own beliefs and instinct which was very much based on her own experiences

• He father was a grocer called Alf roberts and was also a methodis lay preacger

• Thatcher was a intellgent studied chemistry at Oxford.

what was Thatchers profession before politics?

She was a Lawyer

why was she seen as an outsider?

becauses she was not from traditional tory backgrounds and was dismissive of Tory grandees

what did being a convintion politican mean for thatcher’s leadership?

it allowed her to create an image of a strong women which is therefore contrastingly different to the others

what influenced thatcher’s ideology?

• traditional conservativism influenced her thinking like Enoch Powell

• the new right

what was the new right?

• the new right was a collective name for academic and theoretical orgnasations which challnged keynsian orthodoxy

• drew work from milton friedman and friedrich von Hayeck

• promoted free market policies

what did thatcherities have in common about the decline in economically?

• it was caused by the post war consenus so it supporters believed the moral decline was cause by the consenus

who was Norman Tebbit?

• was a outspoken essex MP who was appointed by Thatcher

• he was a down- to - earth man who was very popular amoung the new thatcherists