Margaret
Thatcher named worst prime minister in 100 years
Margaret
Thatcher has been named the worst Prime Minister of the last 100
years, closely beating fellow Conservative David Cameron in a new
survey of leading historical writers.
The
Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) asked its members to give
their views on the last 19 Prime Ministers, in a survey released to
mark Theresa May’s 100th day in office on 22 October.
Baroness
Thatcher, who died in 2013, came first with 24% of the vote, closely
followed by Mr Cameron (22%) and Neville Chamberlain (17%).
Tony Blair
took 11% to leave him in fourth spot, while Gordon Brown and Sir
Edward Heath were tied for fifth place with 8%.
[...]
“She
destroyed too many good things in society, and created too many bad
ones, then left a social and moral vacuum in which the selfishly rich
and unimaginatively fortunate could too easily destroy still more of
what they don't need and can't see that everyone else does need,”
said author Emma Darwin.
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