FALL OF THATCHER / SOCIAL REFORM
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- SOCIAL REFORM
- NHS
- & GPs
- Education
- State schools controlled their budgets
- National curriculum introduced
- Ensured teaching standards = high
- GCSEs 1986
- Housing
- Council tenants could now buy their own homes
- More property owners
- To bring social stability to working-class areas
- UNREST
- Employees - fewer rights
- Poverty - more apparent 1980s
- Rioting in dozens of urban areas 1981
- Miner's strike
- 1984-85
- Outbreaks of violence
- Battle between strikers and police
- Unrest / riots for poll tax
- However, level of unrest = low
- FALL OF THATCHER
- Inflation
- High again
- Gov relied on high interest rates
- Divisions in Conseratives
- Disagreed with Howe and Lawson
- They wanted to join the ERM
- Thatcher later agreed - seemed weak
- Poll tax
- Unpopular
- Taxing individuals not property
- Led to protests
- Violent riot - 1990
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