When Arthur Met Maggie

For a year in the 1980s Arthur Scargill and Magaret Thatcher were on opposite sides of a conflict that decided some of the most important questions in contemporary Britain—yet they never met in person. The British miners' strike of 1984–85 was central to the process of bringing traditional British politics to an end, including the end of the class war, the creation of New Labour, and the wrecking of the Conservative party. This book explores the ways in which small decisions, accidents, delays, mistakes, and premature deaths all played their part in bringing British politics to its present condition.