“By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.” — Kenneth Baker Quote

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

Chasing new runway capacity to cater to ever more frequent leisure flights by Britain's wealthiest households isn't just iniquitous - it's bad economic policy.