The Responsible Society

It is 100 years since Margaret Thatcher was born in Grantham. Fifty years since she took over the Conservative Party. Thirty-three years since she was forced from office. Today’s voters are not Thatcher’s children, but Thatcher’s grandchildren – even great-grandchildren. So why do we still care?

In a powerful new essay for the Centre for Policy Studies, the think tank Thatcher co-founded, Robert Colvile argues that Thatcher still has lessons to teach us – not just because of the clarity of her beliefs, and her willingness to make arguments from principle, but because our core problem today is the same one she diagnosed: that the state has grown too large and the people have grown too small