John Redwood
“I was the founding father,” says John Redwood, the former government minister who fought UK premier John Major in a Conservative leadership election last summer. “I was the pioneer who told them it could be done.”
It’s privatization the one-time Oxford university historian claims to have invented. Drinking a cup of coffee in a couple of quick gulps, he offers some evidence. “I wrote a series of articles in the 1970s setting out why we had to introduce private capital and I took the case to Margaret [Thatcher] who was then leader of the opposition.”
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