The World: Views of a Tory Lady

Can Margaret Thatcher revive Britain 's Conservative Party? Her cure is a brisk dose of Tory principles, laid on smartly with a no-nonsense schoolmistress 's rod. A sampling of the leader's views:

ON SOCIAL MOBILITY: The charm of Britain has always been the ease with which one can move into the middle class. It has never been simply a matter of income, but of a whole attitude to life, a will to take responsibility for oneself—the middle-class morality that Shaw despised so much. We need those who are going to save money, who are...

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