Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher

Edited by Philip Norton, Lord Norton of Louth, Professor of Government, University of Hull and Matt Beech, Reader in Politics and Director, Centre for British Politics, University of Hull, UK

• ContentsPreface ix1 Introduction: the Thatcher phenomenon 1Philip NortonPART I THATCHER AS PARTY LEADER2 From opposition to Thatcherism 28Terrence Casey3 Thatcher and the Conservative intellectuals: the case of Oakeshott, Scrutonand the LSE Right 45Ferenc Hörcher4 Margaret Thatcher and think tanks 57Mark Garnett5 Creating Thatcher’s manifestos: blue is the colour 72Dan PittPART II THATCHER AS PREMIER6 Margaret Thatcher and parliament 88Philip Norton7 Thatcher and trade unions 104Pete Dorey8 Tales from the crypt: Margaret Thatcher’s industrial policy and its afterlife 122James Silverwood and Richard Woodward9 Margaret Thatcher and the regulation of telecommunications markets 140Ewan Sutherland10 The green lady? Environmental and industrial policy 159James Silverwood and James Jackson11 The art of Margaret Thatcher 180Adrian Hilton12 Thatcherism through the prism of television: case study – Brookside 197Ben Williams13 The lone knight versus the Iron Lady: Anthony Meyer thinks theunthinkable in 1989 215Anthony TeasdalePART III THE THATCHER LEGACY14 ‘I am big, it’s the politics that got small’: Margaret Thatcher’s premieremeritus years: her (after) life, (continuing) work, and (emeritus) legacy 235Peter Just15 Not a great repudiator? Margaret Thatcher as reconstructor 1979–1990 260Ben Worthy16 The legacy of Thatcherism: the influence of Thatcherite ideology uponConservative party leadership elections since 1990 275Timothy Heppell and Andrew S. Roe-Crines17 A ‘Renterprise’ culture, not an enterprise culture: Margaret Thatcher’slegacy for British models of political economy 296Simon Lee18 The legacy of Thatcher and British Indian identity: a complicatedrelationship 314Zeena Mistry19 Margaret Thatcher and her national security legacy 335Alex Tant-BrownPART IV WORKING WITH THATCHER20 Reflections: Recollections of working with Margaret Thatcher 354The Rt Hon Lord Baker of Dorking CH, Lord Hayward OBE , The RtHon Lord Jopling DL, The Rt Hon Lord King of Bridgwater CH, LordTurnbull KCB CVO and The Rt Hon Lord Young of Cookham CH

‘The Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher constitutes a substantial and timely scholarly intervention. Its principal strength lies in its pluralism: contributors neither canonise nor caricature their subject, but instead illuminate the intellectual, institutional and political dimensions of Thatcher’s project.’