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Robert Jackman 'The Conservative Party Has Struggled To Abandon It's Thatcherite Heritage.' Discuss. Even though conservatism is a philosophy that by its very nature attempts to avoid dogma and ideology, it is hard to ignore the profound effect that the trend of New Right conservative thinking has had on the British Conservative Party. Margaret Thatcher's ideas reshaped the Conservative Party during the eighties, embodying the New Right divide of neo-liberal free market support and the revival of traditional neo-conservative moral values. Abandoning the established mixed economy of the Post War Consensus, Thatcher was committed to a rigid strategy of privitisation, putting confidence in the virtues of the market to provide competent public services. Such a commitment to the private industry has continued with following leaders, with John Major choosing to privatise the railways and more recent leaders proposing 'passport' schemes for pupils and patients have also invited competition and free market values into...

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