In 1981, the Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph asked Lord Rothschild to lead a review into the future of the SSRC.
During a meeting with Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher's Secretary of State for Education, Joeseph boasted to Hussey, that he held surgeries once a month, which was considered a high number in Britain.
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Collins's political views were liberal and libertarian, but (in 1979) he was asked by Keith Joseph to join a Conservative party think tank chaired by John Hoskyns (who became Chief Political Adviser to Margaret Thatcher) to work on issues such as privatisation.