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Margaret Thatcher is "still adored and revered" by the Conservative Party, "grudgingly respected" by Labour prime ministers past and present, and "despised and reviled on the left and in many ...

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”.

The Labour left made its point but did not resign. It can be argued that to have done so would simply have given an earlier start to Thatcherism. Alternatively, it might have created a tradition of ...