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As the historian Dominic Sandbrook noted in his book Seasons in the Sun: “What drove the Winter of Discontent was not socialism but something often regarded as the core of Thatcherism ...

Katie Lam, the MP for Weald of Kent, said the former prime minister “correctly diagnosed” a number of problems, but she did not believe that Thatcherism “helps or serves us now”.