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They didn't ... but they did say it about Thatcher. She was a) the reluctant candidate (as no-one else from the right stood) b) a complete outsider c) rather blunt and honest in her answers (to the despair of the Tory establishment) d) Espousing a set of policies very far from the centre...

I agree that it's not the same as selling off gilts, but the effect is the same: there's an increase in the money supply

Here's what someone had to say about this. "People say to us 'oh, you've moved away from the centre.' But then opinion began to change to, as the heresies of one period ... became the orthodoxies of the next." That was Maggie Thatcher speaking during the 1979 election - moving away from the...