Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone has said everything that's wrong with Modern Britain "is the legacy of the fact that she was fundamentally wrong", in an interview about Margaret Thatcher. Picture: AP Source: AP
EVERYTHING that is wrong with modern Britain can be traced back to Margaret Thatcher's policies, London's ex-Mayor has said.
The former Labour MP and ex-mayor of London, labelled "Red Ken" by the British press for his outspoken left-wing views, said the financial crisis, the collapse of Britain's manufacturing industry and widespread unemployment were all directly linked to Thatcher's economic reforms in the 1980s.
Mr Livingstone was Labour leader of the London Council when Thatcher's government abolished it, putting him out of a job, before he went on to become mayor.
"The trouble is that almost everything that's wrong with Britain today is her legacy," Mr Livingstone said, after first praising Thatcher's determined nature, strong beliefs and shunning of spin and focus groups.
Thatcher deregulated Britain's banks, "allowed manufacturing to wither" and stopped building council homes, Mr Livingstone told Sky News UK.
"The two million families still trying to get homes today, that's her legacy," Mr Livingstone said.
"She created today's housing crisis, she created the banking crisis, and she created the benefits crisis. It was her government that started putting people on incapacity benefit rather than register as unemployed because the Britain she inherited was at broadly full employment.
US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the White House in 1982. Picture: AP
"She decided when she wrote off our manufacturing industry, that she could live with two or three million unemployed, and the Benefits Bill, the legacy of that, we're still struggling with today.
"In actual fact, every real problem we face today is the legacy of the fact she was fundamentally wrong."
The Sky News interview was cut short when Mr Livingstone began talking about Thatcher's claim that ex-UK PM Tony Blair's "New Labour" was her biggest achievement, with some speculating on Twitter that he had been cut off before he could continue his criticism.
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