UK Tories Summon Up Thatcher With Tax-Slashing Survival Plan (1)

With Britain’s venerable Conservatives desperate to avoid political oblivion, delegates at the party’s annual conference found themselves prompted to seek guidance from a prime minister who left office 35 years ago. “Ask the Iron Lady,” urged a poster from the Conservative Women’s Association.

The sign invited Tories to pose questions to the late Margaret Thatcher, who would’ve turned 100 this year, about problems of the day — a representation of the totemic position she still holds within the party’s diminished core. Her latest successor as Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, appeared to offer her own answer in her ...