This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997.

1. The Privatisation Programme by June 1987 2. On To The Next Stage - Privatisation and the 1987-92 Government 3. Privatising The British Airports Authority 4. Privatising British Steel 5. Privatising British Leyland 6. Privatising Girobank, The Trust Ports and Short Brothers 7. Privatising the Water Industry: Early Planning 8. Regulating the Water Industry 9. Water Privatisation Achieved 10. Privatising the Electricity Industry: The Origins 11. The Failure to Privatise Nuclear Generation 12. Creating Electricity Markets 13. Privatising the Electricity Industry: Capital Restructuring, the Sales and Later Developments 14. Completing the Circle: Privatisation and the 1992-97 Government 15. Privatising the Coal Industry 16. Privatising the Railways: From Rejection to Legislation 17. Privatising the Railways: A Privatisation too Far? 18. Reviving the Goose. Appendix: Major Privatisations July 1987 - April 1997: A Listing of the Principal Advisers