OTTAWA — With an English rose on her lapel, the Iron Lady wrapped her pitch for privatization in the soft, everyman’s mantle of individual empowerment.

“Popular capitalism,” Margaret Thatcher called it, the idea that selling off state assets would spread the glories of direct ownership and lead to a more prosperous United Kingdom.

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