In her efforts to revivify the British economy. Prime minister Margaret Tatcher has been attempting to promote societal values that will support the creation of an "enterprise culture." To do so, she has been doing battle with the consensual economic planning undertaken by business, unions and civil servants known as tripartism and the gentlemanly ethos underpinning such arrangements. Her broadsides against such members of the British gentlemanly culture as the Tory grandees in her own party and members of the higher civil service have been aimed at replacing the British gentleman with a new ideal type more suited to lead her "capitalist revolution."
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