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==== Government of 1979-1997 ==== | ==== Government of 1979-1997 ==== | ||
===== Thatcher (1979-1990) ===== | ===== Thatcher(1979-1990) ===== | ||
In November 1990 Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister following a failure in a leadership challenge mounted by [[Michael Heseltine]] spurred on by her rising unpopularity due to her attack on the poor in the form of the [[Poll Tax]]. After her resignation she instructed her backers to support [[John Major]] for leader instead of Heseltine due to Major being more right wing than the alternative, though, not nearly as right wing as Thatcher herself. With the backing of all the British [[bourgeois media]] aside from [[the Telegraph]], [[the Guardian]], and [[the Independent]], Major won the leadership contest with a vote of 185 to Heseltine’s 131 and [[Douglas Hurd]]’s 56 becoming the new Prime Minister of the UK.<ref>{{Citation|author=Tim Bale|year=2016|title=The Conservative Party, from Thatcher to Cameron|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/ec2683cb0224991559d448bb02940904|chapter=Losing the Plot: Thatcher to Major, 1989-1997|isbn=978-0-7456-8744-5}}</ref> | In November 1990 Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister following a failure in a leadership challenge mounted by [[Michael Heseltine]] spurred on by her rising unpopularity due to her attack on the poor in the form of the [[Poll Tax]]. After her resignation she instructed her backers to support [[John Major]] for leader instead of Heseltine due to Major being more right wing than the alternative, though, not nearly as right wing as Thatcher herself. With the backing of all the British [[bourgeois media]] aside from [[the Telegraph]], [[the Guardian]], and [[the Independent]], Major won the leadership contest with a vote of 185 to Heseltine’s 131 and [[Douglas Hurd]]’s 56 becoming the new Prime Minister of the UK.<ref>{{Citation|author=Tim Bale|year=2016|title=The Conservative Party, from Thatcher to Cameron|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/ec2683cb0224991559d448bb02940904|chapter=Losing the Plot: Thatcher to Major, 1989-1997|isbn=978-0-7456-8744-5}}</ref> | ||
===== Major (1990-1997) ===== | ===== Major(1990-1997) ===== | ||
=== 21st Century === | === 21st Century === | ||
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[[Category:Imperialist political parties]] | [[Category:Imperialist political parties]] | ||