Thatcherite New Right

By andreeapetco

  • Margaret Thatcher becomes PM

  • Brexit riots begin

  • Toxteth (Liverpool) riots

  • Argentina invades the Falkland Islands

  • Argentine forces surrender at Port Stanley

  • General Election held; Thatcher wins her second term in a landslide

  • The miners’ strike begins with a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery

  • Strike made “official” nationally by the NUM (National Union of Mineworkers)

  • Brighton hotel bombing

  • British Telecom (BT) privatisation

  • Thatcher wins her third general election

  • Thatcher’s Bruges speech warning against a “European superstate.”

  • The “Community Charge” (Poll Tax) introduced in England and Wales

  • Major anti-poll tax demonstration / riot in Trafalgar Square

  • Thatcher resigns