Margaret Thatcher was a visionary who helped change the world for the better. From the Telegraph:
[S]he pursued a programme of deregulation that encouraged enterprise and widened access to the engines of prosperity in the economy. The City of London underwent the “Big Bang” of deregulation in 1986 that helped expand the financial services sector, create scores of thousands of jobs and enhanced upward mobility for classes of workers that had traditionally experienced a glass ceiling in the City, and make London Europe’s leading financial centre.
Tax-cutting was one of the main incentives to growth and the encouragement of enterprise.
By the late 1980s the notion of entrepreneurialism became embedded in British culture for the first time since the 19th century, and there, despite some severe trials, it remains. Margaret Thatcher’s legacy has not, however, remained strong only at home.
The economic message of privatisation and the benefits of the small state spread around the world, not least in the liberated states of the former Soviet bloc after 1989. And it had been her role in international affairs, with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, that had had such an important influence on bringing the Cold War to an end and bringing down the Berlin Wall.
She had shown not merely resolve in foreign affairs – she had demonstrated that in 1982 at the time of Argentina – but also a vision of liberty and the link between freedom and prosperity that transformed the British economy and would transform many others around the world.


