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1 day ago · Nigel Lawson, View from No. 11, p. 161 Coal miners were highly organised and had defeated Prime Minister Heath. Thatcher expected a major confrontation, planned ahead for one, and avoided trouble before she was ready. In the end the miners' strike of 1984–85 proved a decisive victory for her—one that permanently discouraged trade unionists. The National Coal Board received the largest amount of public subsidies going to any nationalised industry: by 1984 the annual cost to taxpayers of ...
1 day ago · List of. New Tricks. episodes. New Tricks is a British police procedural comedy-drama that follows the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) of the Metropolitan Police Service. [1] The show was created by Roy Mitchell and Nigel McCrery, [2] and premiered in 2003 with a 90-minute special, which later resulted in the show's first ...
5 hours ago · Tony Blair →. Coat of arms of HM Government. John Major 's term as the prime minister of the United Kingdom began on 28 November 1990 when he accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, succeeding Margaret Thatcher, and ended on 2 May 1997 following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 general election by the ...
