因此就在撒切尔夫人1979年上任首相后不久，专责战略性国家干预行动的英国国家经济发展办公室就被行政降级，并最终于1992年被撒切尔的继任者约翰·梅杰（John Major）撤编。
It did not take Margaret Thatcher long after her election in 1979 to downgrade the National Economic Development Office (known as Neddy), the body responsible for strategic state interventions, which was finally dismantled under Thatcher’s successor, John Major, in 1992.