GIBBARD, 'ESKIMO KNELL', INK AND COLOURED PENCIL, 1981

185 by 492mm., pen and ink with coloured pencil, signed, inscribed with title and ‘The Guardian’, and dated ‘16 February 1981’ below mount, mounted, framed and glazed, some creases

Lord Mcalpine of West Green EXHIBITED:

‘The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1837-2011’, Chris Beetles Gallery,
November 2011-January 2012, no 280

Guardian, 16 February 1981

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In the early years of her first term as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher influenced by economists such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, adopted a monetarist economic policy. Together with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe (b. 1926), she lowered direct taxes on income and increased indirect taxes. ‘Heath-ite’ Conservatives such as Peter Thorneycroft (1909-1994) and Francis Pym (1922-2008), seen here cutting Thatcher and Howe adrift, strongly opposed these policies and are believed to have plotted the downfall of Thatcher and Pym’s succession as Prime Minister.