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The United Kingdom thinkers
Edmund Burke Anglo-Irish statesman and writer whose Reflections on the Revolution in France made him the most cited philosophical founder of modern conservatism. Margaret Thatcher Britain's first woman prime minister, who from 1979 to 1990 curbed union power, privatised state industries and championed free markets and a strong defence. Michael Oakeshott English philosopher whose essay On Being Conservative and Rationalism in Politics define conservatism as a disposition, not a programme. Roger Scruton English philosopher and writer who gave modern British conservatism a philosophical voice, writing on beauty, architecture, home and belonging. Winston Churchill British statesman and writer who led the country as prime minister from 1940 to 1945, warned against appeasement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature.