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In the latter half of the twentieth-century Gladstone's economic policies came to be admired by Thatcherite Conservatives.
Margaret Thatcher proclaimed in 1983: " We have a duty to make sure that every penny piece we raise in taxation is spent wisely and well.
For it is our party which is dedicated to good housekeeping — indeed, I would not mind betting that if Mr. Gladstone were alive today he would apply to join the Conservative Party ".
In 1996 she said in the Keith Joseph memorial lecture: " The kind of Conservatism which he and I ... favoured would be best described as " liberal ", in the old-fashioned sense.
And I mean the liberalism of Mr Gladstone not of the latter day collectivists ".
Nigel Lawson, one of Thatcher's Chancellors, believed Gladstone to be the " greatest Chancellor of all time ".

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