UK burying Thatcher’s privatisation legacy

UK burying Thatcher’s privatisation legacy
Margaret Thatcher addressing the 1990 Conservative Party conference in Blackpool, her last speech as PM. (Image: Getty)
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By Matthew BrookerThe walk from Abbey Wood underground station to Britain’s second-largest sewage works leads past Southmere Lake, an artificial body of water bordered by brutalist tower blocks that featured in Stanley Kubrick's dystopian movie A Clockwork Orange. This area of former marshland beside the River Thames in southeast London is a fitting place to contemplate the turn in Britain's privatisation journey: It’s a landscape that evokes a future gone wrong.The past 12 months may go down as the year that Britain fi...

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