Last night, David Cameron presented Margaret Thatcher with a lifetime achievement award, and he follows it up with an article on the Iron Lady in today’s Telegraph. The article begins boldly:
“Those who say that the modern Conservative Party is breaking with the legacy of Margaret Thatcher are wrong.”
And mixes praise for Thatcher with swipes at Brown:
“She tackled inflation through getting control of the money supply, an enormously difficult task which not only makes Gordon Brown’s sole monetary decision – to hand over control over interest rates to the Bank of England – look puny in comparison; it made it possible in the first place… …Margaret Thatcher is a fitting recipient of the Morgan Stanley Great Britons award, when we judge greatness as it should be judged: the scale of the legacy.
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