ABSTRACT
Previous chapters have considered Thatcher’s ideas, convictions and policies in broadly chronological fashion. Since more than twenty years have passed since she left office, it is not too early to offer at least provisional judgement about the longer-term significance of Thatcherism as a whole. This chapter examines a number of themes that historians and political scientists have identified as important either for Thatcher herself or to the wider significance of the policies she developed in the 1980s.
