QuoteQuest“[Thatcher] began by asking what benefits ordinary people had received after 3½ years of Socialism. The Government should do what any good housewife would do if money was short—look at their accounts and see what was wrong.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Margaret Thatcher
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Speech at her adoption meeting as Conservative candidate for Dartford (28 February 1949)
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Thatcher, Margaret. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Margaret Thatcher. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
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