How Margaret Thatcher invented the modern British election campaign

David Cameron seems to have been channelling the spirit of Margaret Thatcher in the opening weeks of the 2015 election campaign. Speaking to an audience in Bristol, he said: “We know that there is no such thing as public money – there is only taxpayers’ money”. As the Independent pointed out, this was a word-for-word quote from Thatcher’s speech at the 1983 Conservative Party conference