The top candidates to replace U.K. PM Boris Johnson are competing to position themselves as the true heir to an earlier Conservative standard-bearer: Margaret Thatcher.
also evoked Thatcher on Wednesday, saying she first knew she wanted to serve her country when she saw the then-prime minister send ships to war in the Falklands. A smiling Thatcher alsoThatcher's record of shrinking the state and battling the trade unions remains deeply polarizing in the U.K., but she's revered by the Conservative base — and they're the ones who will pick the next prime minister.It's hardly new for a would-be prime minister to tie themselves to a former leader.
Thatcher might have empathized with Johnson's plight. Lionized as she is today on the right, her own party threw her overboard in 1990.
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