Thatcher, Sunak and the politics of the supermarket
The story of British politics told through the aisles
There is no museum to Margaret Thatcher. There is no need for one, given the Sainsbury’s supermarket on the high street in Finchley, her former constituency. She opened it on March 16th 1987, inspecting the sausages, zapping cans at the till and delivering a sermon to its employees. “The market economy isn’t some theory—it is, in fact, men and women being able to spend their own earnings in the place of their choice, in shops like these.”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “This sceptred aisle”
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