Is it really all Maggie's fault?

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Independent think-tank The Policy Exchange yesterday launched a series of essays which all predict in 50 years time Thatcher's children will be worse off than their parents are today.

For some this may come as a revelation but not I would suggest for those who were actually born between 1980 and 1995. But to be completely accurate this generational grouping - as presented by The Policy Exchange - isn't exactly a fair reflection, as anyone born after 1990 would be one of Major's children surely? To be really considered one of Thatcher's children you had to be born between 1979 and 1990 and this might make for a more accurate assessment of her policies as prime minister. But then this collection of essays does not exactly look to blame Thatcher for the plight of young ...

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