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What Thatcher got right - CapXBy Oliver WisemanCampaigning in the 1979 general election, then Prime Minister and Labour leader Jim Callaghan warned Britain of the risks of voting Conservative: “The question you will have to consider is whether we risk tearing everything up by the roots.†The Tories, he said, “were too big a gamble for the country to takeâ€.As we now know, the voters took a different view. Callaghan’s proto-Project Fear failed, Thatcher triumphed, Britain changed forever – and for the better.Today marks 40 years since Margaret Thatcher first entered Downing Street as Prime Minister. All these years later the Conservative Party is frequently accused of having developed an unhealthy obsession with the Iron Lady.Read more at: https://capx.co/what-thatcher-got-right/