In addition, while Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, she worked to privatize everything; she privatized plentiful of industries, for instance, British Telecom. Several people did not like this, especially those who were in the working class because they lost all their work. Not only did the privatizing make the working class poor, but it also made the British society divided and you could clearly see the differences between the working and middle class. However, the middle class thought that it was a great idea to privatize the industries because they already had money to survive on, unlike the working class. The poverty went up and according to these figures from the institute for Fiscal studies.13,4% of the population lived below 60%
