Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, died in London on 8 April 2013. Coming to power in the late 1970s, Margaret Thatcher patiently and sometimes courageously implemented far-reaching economic and social reforms.
Her successors, even those from the Labour left, have strayed little from this liberal doxa for fear of alienating the British population. "Society does not exist," she liked to say, calling on every citizen to assume his responsibilities instead of waiting to be taken over by the state.