Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to
Thatcherism . - adjective Supporting Thatcherism.
- noun An
advocate of Thatcherism.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He issued a press release which didn't dispute Mr Darling's assessment of the SNP's future economic prospects but merely attacked him for being touted as campaign leader by what they called a "Thatcherite" - easily their favourite insult - former Tory minister, Lord Forsyth.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Alan Cochrane 2012
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Don't think anyone would call me a 'Thatcherite' - but I am an admirer of her legacy.
Margaret Thatcher recalled Glyn Davies 2007
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• Philip Hensher: 'Thatcherite' - an insult that's had its day
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Finally, Mme Pujol comes to nurse political ambitions, and there is something that might almost be called Thatcherite in her bearing, were it not that these Anglo-Saxon influences are really quite alien.
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Former Archbishop called 'Thatcherite yesterday's man' by fellow cleric
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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Former Archbishop called 'Thatcherite yesterday's man' by fellow cleric
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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Benefits: Families and disabled people will be hit by 'Thatcherite' cuts
Retailers suffer headache after trickle to beat VAT rise 2011
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The only significant "Thatcherite" reform of the first term was the "right to buy" scheme for council house tenants.
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Westerwelle's Free Democratic Party favors nuclear power --- which, in Germany, means stalling the nuclear power plant phase-out --- and "Thatcherite" economic reforms.
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Perhaps you have already seen this remarkable BBC item suggesting that Mrs Thatcher was not really "Thatcherite"!
Biased BBC 2009
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