Margaret Thatcher left the top job in the British government more than 16 years ago, but we can still learn lessons from her leadership as prime minister.
That was a key message John Blundell delivered to a John Locke Foundation luncheon audience today. Among the lessons was Thatcher’s willingness to support policies supported by human nature (video clip):
She championed policies that went with, rather than against, the grain of human nature. She once said popular capitalism is nothing less than a crusade to enfranchise the many in the economic life of the nation. We Conservatives are returning power to the people.
(The rest of the video clip offers the example of Thatcher’s policy for privatizing public housing.)
