Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher is seen during the period of her late political career. Firstly as she speaks a year after leaving office as Prime Minister at the 1991 Conservative Party Conference, at parliament's dispatch box, caricatured by Spitting Image, meeting the Emir of Kuwait and with her late husband Dennis.

Thatcher's political career has been one of the most remarkable of modern times. Born in October 1925 at Grantham, a small market town in eastern England, she rose to become the...
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Margaret Thatcher is seen during the period of her late political career. Firstly as she speaks a year after leaving office as Prime Minister at the 1991 Conservative Party Conference, at parliament's dispatch box, caricatured by Spitting Image, meeting the Emir of Kuwait and with her late husband Dennis.

Thatcher's political career has been one of the most remarkable of modern times. Born in October 1925 at Grantham, a small market town in eastern England, she rose to become the first (and for two decades the only) woman to lead a major Western democracy. She won three successive General Elections and served as British Prime Minister for more than eleven years (1979-90), a record unmatched in the twentieth century. (Source http://www.margaretthatcher.org/essential/biography.asp).
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