‘The Black Queen versus the Red Knight’ (original) (raw)

1989

Abstract

When Mrs Thatcher won the 1979 general election, a power struggle with town halls was inevitable. Like other Prime Ministers, her instincts were essentially centralist. She had a longstanding distrust of Labour local government stemming from her days as Education Secretary in the 1970–4 Heath government. This was reinforced in the late 1970s when she saw the potential of urban councils to grow into power bases of municipal socialism, determined to thwart the assumed supremacy of the Westminster mandate.

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