ABSTRACT
In describing the Heath Government, Sir Leo Pliatzky (1982) has suggested that there were resemblances between the Heath Government and that of Mrs Thatcher in their intentions to break with the politics of social democracy and state intervention:
in a good many respects its [the Heath Government] philosophy anticipated the brand of politics which later came to be associated with Margaret Thatcher. There was the same commitment to restore a market economy, the same aspiration to roll back the frontiers of the public sector. This was the philosophy of Selsdon Man.
(Pliatzky 1982:98)