prime minister in Britain. 2. For many the 1980s was a decade of increased prosperity. Mrs. Thatcher firmly believed in self-reliance and privatization . Her polices are popularly referred to as Thatcherism . It included the return to private ownership of state-owned industries, the use of arist policies (the supply of money in Britain) to control inflation, the weakening of trade unions, the strengthening of the role of market forces in the economy, and an emphasis on law and order. 十总结: 1. Whigs and Tories( 各自的政治主张和政治利益); 2. Agricultural changes and industrial revolution; 3. The chartist movement; 4. The British Empire; 5. The first and second world war; 6. Postwar Britain; 7. Thatcherism Chapter 7 government and administration 第六单元是关于经济的, 从考纲来看, 并不是重要部分, 因为一方面, 经济是经常变化的, 另一方面, 经济对英国来说并