Ridley Plan
These tactics were successfully employed during the miners' strike of 1984-85 , when the National Union of Mineworkers was defeated by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher . Thatcher was strongly influenced by other Selsdon Group members besides Ridley , such as Norman Tebbit and Alan Walters . The report had been leaked six years before by "The Economist" and published on 27 May 1978 , but the unions , especially the NUM , showed no interest in adapting or altering their own tactics in response . 
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