Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher
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2 days ago · e. Margaret Thatcher 's term as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 4 May 1979 when she accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, and ended on 28 November 1990 upon her resignation. She was elected to the position in 1979, having led the Conservative Party since 1975, and won landslide re-elections in 1983 ...
4 days ago · Her passion was politics and, after becoming Conservative MP for Finchley in 1959, she began progressing quickly through party ranks: she held several positions in Edward Health’s shadow cabinet, and was secretary for education and science under a Tory government elected in 1970.
1 day ago · Margaret Thatcher asserted in 1989 that people infected with HIV from contaminated blood had been 'given the best treatment available'. Credit: PA When asked by victim groups for compensation in ...
2 days ago · At my private school, St Paul’s, we children of Thatcher were similarly educated out of marriage and femininity. ONE of my unmarried school friends recalls: ‘My teachers made me feel as if marriage was shameful. My english mistress once teased me for looking at a bridal magazine, but then she was an arch feminist who demonised men.’
2 days ago · In 1979, Margaret Thatcher’s new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. In response, Mrs Thatcher pursued an economic policy which rejected the old orthodoxies and was promoted by only a minority of economists: a policy based on the doctrine of monetarism.
4 days ago · The new book examines the escalating tension between the broadcast media and the Thatcher government over various flashpoints in the Northern Irish conflict, including the 1981 hunger strike by IRA prisoners; a deadly IRA bombing attempt that Thatcher narrowly escaped; the killing of three Provisional IRA members in Gibraltar, followed by a ...
