“(The Community Charge is) the flagship of the Thatcher fleet.”

— Margaret Thatcher

David Butler, Andrew Adonis and Tony Travers, "Failure in British government: the politics of the poll tax" (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994)
Remarks to Conservative backbench MPs, July 1987
Third term as Prime Minister

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