Charles Moore tells George Osborne nowadays’s politicians would have lost the strike but won the PR war
contemporary-day politicians would not be strong enough to win the miners’ strike,but they would have been better at spinning it to the media than Margaret Thatcher was, Thatcher’s authorised biographer has said in an interview with George Osborne. Speaking at the launch of the moment instalment of Charles Moore’s biography of Thatcher – in front of an audience that included Peter Mandelson – the chancellor asked Moore whether Thatcher had lost “the story” of the miners’ strike. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com