Thatcher's privatisation legacy

How the promise of increased British competitiveness and greater prosperity has not materialised, and why I didn’t get to grow up in Hawaii.

<div style="text-align: left;"> Cable & Wireless HKT's logo fades into history </div>

Nick Ferguson

April 11, 2013

I was 10 when the company my dad worked for became one of the first state-owned firms privatised under Margaret Thatcher.

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