Letter of the week: Thatcher’s brief exile

Letter of the week: Thatcher’s brief exile

I would like to take issue with Kwasi Kwarteng’s view (Cover Story, 15 September) that “the two great reforming governments were New Labour… and Margaret Thatcher’s. It’s no surprise that a lot of their thinking was done in the long years of opposition.” True, Blair was in opposition from 1983 and served an apprenticeship until he was elected Labour leader in 1994, but this is time Thatcher never had. Four years as leader of the opposition, from…