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When, as expected, the Tories won the 1983 general election, it was inevitable that the skirmishes with local councils turned rapidly into all out war. As the increasingly tough penalties had failed to curb spending, the Tory manifesto had committed the Tories to a new power to control rate levels — ‘ratecapping’, as it soon became known.
‘The grotesque chaos of a Labour council hiring taxis to scuttle round the city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers!’ (Neil Kinnock on Liverpool Council, Labour Party Conference, 1985).
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© 1989 Stewart Lansley, Sue Goss and Christian Wolmar
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Lansley, S., Goss, S., Wolmar, C. (1989). The Ratecapping Struggle. In: Councils in Conflict. Public Policy and Politics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20231-7_3
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