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- Toronto, ON, CA
I was reading a book about the Charles Haughey Ministry of ‘81 and it observed in passing that there was a real Nixon-in-China element to the Lancaster House Agreement and the negotiations that led to the Anglo-Irish Agreement in that a more moderate figure would’ve lacked the credibility and political capital with backbench hardliners to effectively pursue them in the way Thatcher was able to.
Given Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is so easily butterflied away, what are the effects of a more moderate (or potentially more right wing figure) coming to power about the same time and be facing these same issues?
Given Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is so easily butterflied away, what are the effects of a more moderate (or potentially more right wing figure) coming to power about the same time and be facing these same issues?