The Fall of Thatcher - the Poll Tax and Patten
Update: 2021-01-10
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Chris Patten was appointed Environment Secretary with a brief to make the Conservative party look Green as well as blue. But also in the in-tray was a reform to taxation - known as the poll Tax. It was he says perhaps the most disastrous domestic policy ever - and the key to Thatcher’s fall from power.
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