Tory! Tory! Tory!

Season 1 - Tory! Tory! Tory!

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Exercise of Power The final episode of the series focuses on how Mrs Thatcher's post-Falklands War popularity spurred her to roll out a series of radical policies. The Government faced a debt of £128bn in the 1980s, but the sell-off of British Telecom and the political victory over the miners' strike allowed them to overcome the deficit
• Season 1 Episode 2: The Road to Power An insight into how the Centre for Policy Studies was developed in the mid-1970s as a means of encouraging free-thinkers to air their views on what was wrong with Britain and champion economic liberalism. Following the 1979 election, Margaret Thatcher found herself the most unpopular prime minister since polling began, but history was about to change with the Falklands War
• Season 1 Episode 1: Outsiders The story of the people and ideas behind Thatcherism and how the movement became the dominant force in politics. The first episode uncovers the degree of Cabinet dissent during Edward Heath's premiership and concludes by charting the unlikely election of Mrs Thatcher as leader, which only came about because no one expected her to win. With contributions by Cecil Parkinson, Antony Jay and John Nott