Margaret Thatcher were officially denied by William Heseltine, the Private Secretary to the Sovereign. Thatcher later wrote: "I always found the Queen's attitude towards the work of the Government absolutely correct ... stories of clashes between 'two powerful women' were just too good not to make up." Thatcher's economic policy was influenced by monetarist thinking and economists such as Milton Friedman and Alan Walters. Together with Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe, she lowered direct taxes on income and increased indirect taxes. She increased interest rates to slow the growth of the money supply and thereby lower inflation, introduced cash limits on
Margaret Thatcher for the Conservatives in total between 1979 and 1987. Her final election win was hailed as a "historic hat trick" by "The Independent" and similarly by other newspapers. Thatcher ranked highest among living persons in the 2002 BBC poll "100 Greatest Britons". In 1999, "Time" deemed Thatcher one of the . In 2015 she topped a poll by "Scottish Widows", a major financial services company, as the most influential woman of the past 200 years; and in 2016 topped BBC Radio 4's "Woman's Hour Power List" of women judged to have had the biggest impact on female lives over the