Iain Dale in conversation with Alex Puffette Margaret Thatcher: The Prime Ministers Series

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What made Margaret Thatcher the most consequential and divisive British leader of the modern era? In this incisive and provocative session, Iain Dale draws on his bestselling Prime Ministers series to uncover the ideas, battles and choices that reshaped Britain: confronting inflation and industrial decline, winning the Falklands War, rolling back the state, and redefining Britains place in the world.

From monetarism to privatisation, the miners strike to the rise of the homeowner, Dale traces how Thatchers revolution redrew the political map and forged arguments that still dominate our national debate. What lay behind her extraordinary drive and what was the human cost? What can todays leaders learn from her strengths and her blind spots?

Iain Dale is one of Britains best-known political broadcasters and commentators. He presents LBCs award-winning evening show, appears regularly on Question Time, Newsnight and Sky News, and has written or edited more than forty books, including The NHS: The Story So Far and biographies of Margaret Thatcher, Boris Johnson and Theresa May.
Joining him is Alex Puffette, political researcher and author of The Modern Prime Ministers and I Was the Future Once: A David Cameron Biography, whose work examines leadership and political change from a new generations perspective.

Clear-eyed, engaging and rich in historical insight, this event separates myth from record and invites a lively conversation about legacy, ideology and the price of radical change.

A Q&A session will follow.

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