Abstract
Reviewing her memoirs in 1993, The Times columnist, Janet Daley had argued that Thatcher’s greatest achievement had been the transformation of the class structure. Her personal toughness had helped to legitimise the ‘right of working-class people to be self determining’. On BBC2’s The Late Show (27 October 1993), Daley pointed out that it was ambitious working-class voters who had kept Thatcher in power.
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© 2013 Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell and Sherryl Wilson
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Holland, P., Chignell, H., Wilson, S. (2013). Restructuring Social Class. In: Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313225_5
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