0 a person who supports the political ideas and policies of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, especially the idea that industries and services should be owned by private companies, not by the state:
He was a convinced Thatcherite.
1 supporting or relating to the political ideas and policies of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, especially the idea that industries and services should be owned by private companies, not by the state:
It is often said - mostly by Thatcherites - that Britain in the 1970s was a depressing and grey place in urgent need of reform.
They are Thatcherites who wish to roll back the frontiers of the state.
Conservative MPs were split three ways between Thatcherites, Heselteenies and one-nation Tories.
In 1991, a young Thatcherite was suddenly installed as editor of the usually liberal magazine.
The country introduced Thatcherite economics before Thatcher.
He was a Parliamentary candidate for a party whose economic policies are more Thatcherite than Thatcher herself.
The Thatcherite view of a loosely associated Europe rests on a nationalistic suspicion of things European.
