sentences:  Just a decade after they were established, the mostly Labour-controlled metropolitan county councils and the Greater London Council had several high-profile clashes with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher about overspending and high rates.Government policy on the issue was considered throughout 1982, and the Conservative Party put a "promise to scrap the metropolitan county councils", and the GLC, in their manifesto for the 1983 general election.The exact details of the reform caused problems.