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The woman leader I most admire would be the Green London AM Jenny Jones, who has done wonderful work on the London Assembly for the past  years, implementing many important changes to Mayor Livingstone's... Show more »

The woman leader I most admire would be the Green London AM Jenny Jones, who has done wonderful work on the London Assembly for the past  years, implementing many important changes to Mayor Livingstone's budget.

I grew up under Margaret Thatcher, and I believe that with her policies based on the notion that 'there's no such thing as society', she betrayed the British people by destroying social cooperation and community cohesion and introducing an age of naked competitive exchange.

By cutting spending on social welfare, she oversaw a massive redistribution of wealth from bottom to top that took away millions of jobs and led to an increased economically and socially polarised country.

We are still picking up the pieces from the damage she did to Britain's culture, economy, society and reputation. The18 years of Conservative rule, and a further 11 years of conservative rule by the Labour government that followed, have marked a fundamental shift to the right in British politics, which we are barely starting to undo in London.