Tory! Tory! Tory!

Tory! Tory! Tory!
Genre	Documentary
Created by	Sam Collyns
Directed by	Don Jordan Dan Hillman Tom McCarthy
Narrated by	Haydn Gwynne
Composer(s)	Elizabeth Parker
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	3
Production
Executive producer(s)	Sam Collyns
Producer(s)	Don Jordan Dan Hillman Tom McCarthy
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC Four
Original release	8 March – 22 March 2006

Tory! Tory! Tory! is a 2006 BBC television documentary series on the history of the people and ideas that formed Thatcherism told through the eyes of those on the New Right. It was nominated for the best Historical Documentary at the Grierson Awards in 2006.

The series was commissioned by the newly appointed Controller of BBC Four Janice Hadlow as a companion piece to the successful series Lefties prompting praise from the Daily Telegraph, which described it as "fascinating", and from The Guardian.

This edition tells of the radicals in the political wilderness after World War II who saw the foundation of the Welfare State as the thin end of a totalitarian wedge. At first they were seen as cranks, but gradually they attracted supporters within the political mainstream. It was only when Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party that they saw a champion.

The re-emergence of classical liberalism began with Antony Fisher, an old Etonian chicken farmer, who made a fortune by introducing battery cage farming into the UK. Fisher had lost his younger brother fighting against Nazi Germany in the Battle of Britain and was determined to use his fortune to combat what he saw as the totalitarian tendencies of the Labour Government's policies like nationalisation, price controls and the welfare state. Influenced by the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, he established the Institute of Economic Affairs under the directorship of Ralph Harris.

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