Abstract
Margaret Thatcher is not consensual, her policy is voluntarist, often authoritative, sometimes aggressive. Thatcher's strategy concerning social policy consists in favouring the middle and upper classes, which constitutes the conservative electorate, without caring about the working class. Actually, Margaret Thatcher thinks poverty, unemployment, increased inequalities are a necessary harm and certainly temporary to economical prosperity and growth, because prosperity is the key of social progress. Moreover, she rejects egalitarianism as a social policy objective. Thus, she doesn't hesitate to collide with her opponents. But Margaret Thatcher's strategy concerning social policy is above all marked by public spending reduction. What have been the main consequences of Margaret Thatcher's social policy on the English society?
