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In October 2005 Lady Thatcher celebrated her 80th birthday with a grand party. The guests included many of the famous from the world of politics and administration including John Major, Norman Tebbit, Lord Carrington, Lord Butler and Prime Minister Tony Blair. Of her former Tory critics, Lord Heseltine, her nemesis, was absent but Lord Howe, presumably forgiven for his treachery a decade and a half ago, praised Mrs Thatcher’s ‘astonishing achievements’ that ‘had shaped the late twentieth century’. His assessment recalled an era when efficiency, markets and choice held sway.
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Gray, A., Jenkins, B. (2006). Government and Administration: The Quest for Public Value. In: Rush, M., Giddings, P. (eds) Palgrave Review of British Politics 2005. Palgrave Review of British Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598157_6
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