“s disclosures, on the eve of the Conservative Party conference, follow revelations in the published diaries of his former private secretary, the late Judith Chaplin, that he had wanted Lady Thatcher”
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the office. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to be known as Thatcherism. A Soviet jour…
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2026· 28 entries
“Two world wars, she thought, proved the country was expansionist by instinct. Britain”
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“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady”
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Liverpool Echo: 45 years on, what is the truth about Thatcher and Liverpool's 'managed decline' note?
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Theatre and Tonic: Margaret Thatcher Queen of Hollywood at Assembly George Square Garden’s Review
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Church Funeral Services & Crematory: Margaret Roberts Obituary Aug 12, 2026
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Daily Mail: Margaret Thatcher backed secret plan to wipe out cocaine crops by unleashing swarms of leaf-eating moths over drug cartel plantations
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2022· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph, shared widely in May 2022, showed U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher talking to a young Justin Trudeau, future prime minister of Canada.” True.
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2019· 2 entries
Reported claimRated Correct. He was the prime minister of Israel at the time, and it was taken during a visit to Downing Street in 1979. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A picture shows Margaret Thatcher and Menachem Begin shaking hands.” Correct. He was the prime minister of Israel at the time, and it was taken during a visit to Downing Street in 1979..
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Reported claimRated We can’t prove whether she did or didn’t say it, but she definitely didn’t coin the phrase. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “Margaret Thatcher once said anyone on a bus over the age of 25 is a failure.” We can’t prove whether she did or didn’t say it, but she definitely didn’t coin the phrase..
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2018· 1 entry
VOA rated the claim ““In November 1991, in her speech in Houston, ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said that ‘according to the estimates of the world community, it is economically feasible for only 15 million people to live in Russia.’”” False.
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2017· 3 entries
Full Fact rated the claim “Under Margaret Thatcher the corporation rate was 52%. It fell to 34% while she was Prime Minister.” That’s correct..
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Reported claimRated That was its bottom-line judgement about income inequality. As the report itself says, this is only a projection. It’s based on assumptions about current trends in the economy, and the future of the economy is especially uncertain now the UK is leaving the EU. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “The Resolution Foundation brought out a report this week saying we were on course for the biggest increase in inequality since Thatcher.” That was its bottom-line judgement about income inequality. As the report itself says, this is only a projection. It’s based on assumptions about current trends in the economy, and the future of the economy is especially uncertain now the UK is leaving the EU..
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That Thatcher had suggested threatening Saddam with chemical weapons after the invasion of Kuwait
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2013· 37 entries
Died 2013-04-08.
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“People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.”
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Career landmark: death.
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“Autorka: Glenda Jackson, posłanka brytyjskiej Partii Pracy”
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“I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free...I haven't fought the destructive forces of socialism for more than twenty years in order to stop now, when the critical phase of the struggle is upon us.”
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“This Party of ours has been on the defensive for too long. The time has come to counter-attack...The intellectual counter-attack is as important as the counter-attack in Parliament and in the constituencies. If we can win the battle of ideas, then the war will already be half-won.”
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“This is not a confrontation between ‘left’ and ‘right’. I am trying to represent the deep feelings of those many thousands of rank-and-file Tories in the country—and potential Conservative voters, too—who feel let down by our party and find themselves unrepresented in a political vacuum.”
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“If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.”
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“I wish I could say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done himself less than justice. Unfortunately, I can only say that I believe he has done himself justice. Some Chancellors are macro-economic. Other Chancellors are fiscal. This one is just plain cheap.”
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“I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.”
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“I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.”
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“Our freedoms depended on our having independence, independence in the wage packet, and independence of the Government...If you rely always on a Government for your wage packet, then the source of your independence to fight that Government has gone...Already one person in four works in the public sector. This is more than enough, and we must stop the encroachment from going any further.”
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“Margaret Thatcher, ex-primeira-ministra inglesa, pedindo ao governo inglês a libertação de Pinochet”
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“It will be years — not in my time — before a woman will become Prime Minister”
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“On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.”
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“In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.”
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Reported net worth: £4.7M (as of 2013).
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“I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.”
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“I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly.”
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“A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.”
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“Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.”
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“A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”
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“We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”
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“I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society – from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.”
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“[Thatcher] began by asking what benefits ordinary people had received after 3½ years of Socialism. The Government should do what any good housewife would do if money was short—look at their accounts and see what was wrong.”
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“The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.”
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“I owe nothing to Women's Lib.”
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Died of a stroke at the Ritz Hotel, London, at the age of 87
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“Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.”
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“Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.”
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“My job is to stop Britain from going red.”
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“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.”
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“And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.”
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“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.”
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“In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.”
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“Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism, which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain therefore must be strong, strong in arms, and strong in faith in her own way of life. The greatest hope for peace lies in friendship and co-operation with the United States of America.”
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“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.”
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2011· 1 entry
That her government had secretly supplied Iraq under Saddam Hussein with "non-lethal" military equipment since 1981
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2009· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Margaret Thatcher once said that "The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."” Correct Attribution.
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“outdated industries, whose markets were in terminal decline”
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Łódź (2008).
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2004· 1 entry
Thatcher "managed to destroy the power of the trade unions for almost a generation"
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Clare Boothe Luce Award (2002).
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“orders. Stories From 22 Nov 1963: Kennedy shot dead in Dallas 1995: Life sentence for Rosemary West 1990: Thatcher quits as prime minister 2003: England win Rugby World Cup 1997: Michael Hutchence found dead in hotel 1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy 2005: Merkel becomes German chancellor Witness The Iron Lady”
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the White Lion (1999).
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Visited him while he was under house arrest near London
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1998· 4 entries
Awarded Ronald Reagan Freedom Award (1998).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Zagreb (1998).
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Awarded Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir (1998).
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Thatcher called for the release of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet when Spain had him arrested and sought to try him for human rights violations
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Precious Crown, 1st Class (1995).
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Awarded Knight of the Garter (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Thatcher praised Blair as "probably the most formidable Labour leader since Hugh Gaitskell", adding: "I see a lot of socialism behind their front bench, but not in Mr Blair
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1993· 2 entries
“by Philip Webster and Robert Morgan in The Times (14 April 1993) Clear. Decisive. Purposeful. When asked how she would describe her leadership style. [6] Douglas, Douglas, you would make Neville Chamberlain look like a warmonger. On Douglas Hurd, as quoted in”
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the College of William & Mary (1993–2000).
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1992· 2 entries
Thatcher was given a life peerage, which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords
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Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (1992–2013).
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1991· 4 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George H. W. Bush (1991).
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That, while not directly training any Khmer Rouge, from 1983 the Special Air Service (SAS) was sent to secretly train "the armed forces of the Cambodian non-communist resistance" that remained loyal to Prince Norodom Sih
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“made a valid argument, if in sometimes regrettable terms”
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And her husband Denis moved to a house in Chester Square, a residential garden square in central London's Belgravia district
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1990· 4 entries
Awarded Order of Merit (1990).
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There were 630 and fewer than 2 million working days lost, and they continued to fall thereafter
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Accepted the arguments for privatisation, which her successor John Major implemented in 1994
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After a challenge was launched to her leadership, and was succeeded by John Major, her Chancellor of the Exchequer
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1989· 2 entries
And in England and Wales the following year, and proved to be among the most unpopular policies of her premiership
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Recommended intervention, and put pressure on Bush to deploy troops in the Middle East to drive the Iraqi Army out of Kuwait
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1988· 2 entries
Thatcher outlined her opposition to proposals from the EEC, forerunner of the European Union, for a federal structure and increased centralisation of decision-making:We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of
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Followed by another to the UN General Assembly in 1989
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded Financial Times Person of the Year (1987).
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But her subsequent support for the Community Charge (also known as the "poll tax") was widely unpopular, and her increasingly Eurosceptic views on the European Community were not shared by others in her cabinet
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Career landmark: member of the 50th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1987–1992).
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1986· 4 entries
Career landmark: President-in-Office of the European Council (1986–1986).
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Leaked stories of a deep rift to The Sunday Times
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Thatcher oversaw the deregulation of UK financial markets, leading to an economic boom, in what came to be known as the Big Bang
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“On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal. (ang.)”
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1985· 1 entry
And by 1992 a total of 97 mines had been closed; those that remained were privatised in 1994
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1984· 7 entries
And another letter shortly before his death two years later
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Despite the "inevitable demonstrations" against his government
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Agreeing to hand over Hong Kong's sovereignty in 1997
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“We have done more to roll back the frontiers of socialism than any previous Conservative Government.”
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Career landmark: assassination attempt.
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And met Gorbachev and Council of Ministers chairman Nikolai Ryzhkov
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The year of the miners' strike, there were 1,221, resulting in the loss of more than 27 million working days
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1983· 3 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1983).
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Career landmark: member of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1983–1987).
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When Reagan did not consult with her on the invasion of Grenada
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1982· 1 entry
And a bitterly divided opposition, all contributed to Thatcher's second election victory in 1983
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1981· 2 entries
“the object is to change the heart and soul.”
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Career landmark: President-in-Office of the European Council (1981–1981).
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1980· 1 entry
And 1981, Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison carried out hunger strikes to regain the status of political prisoners that had bee
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1979· 12 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (1979).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990).
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When more than 29 million working days had been lost
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Up until Thatcher's final year in office, trade union membership also fell, from 13
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Which allowed more capital to be invested in foreign markets, and the Big Bang of 1986 removed many restrictions on the London Stock Exchange
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The Thatcher government backed the Khmer Rouge keeping their UN seat after they were ousted from power in Cambodia by the Cambodian–Vietnamese War
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“s first female prime minister and this was one of her most famous speeches. She led three successive Conservative governments from 1979 to 1990. In office she privatised state-owned industries and utilities, implemented strict trade union restrictions, and reduced social expenditures. Thatcher”
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“The bulk of the credit for the turnaround that has taken place since then belongs to her,”
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Following his former assistant's election as prime minister, Jellinek, by then a professor of physical chemistry at Clarkson University in the United States, said she had done "a very good job" on the project, "showing g
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Career landmark: member of the 48th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1979–1983).
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Career landmark: Minister for the Civil Service (1979–1990).
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Career landmark: First Lord of the Treasury (1979–1990).
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1976· 1 entry
Thatcher gave her "Britain Awake" foreign policy speech which lambasted the Soviet Union, saying it was "bent on world dominance"
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1975· 4 entries
Defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and the first woman to lead a major British political party
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Career landmark: Leader of the Conservative Party (1975–1990).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1975–1979).
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And met President Gerald Ford, visiting again in 1977, when she met President Jimmy Carter
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1974· 4 entries
Career landmark: member of the 46th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1974–1974).
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Career landmark: member of the 47th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1974–1979).
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Career landmark: Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1974–1975).
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Of the possibility of "a breakdown of democracy", telling them: "If I were a young man, I would emigrate
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1973· 1 entry
Subsequently losing the February 1974 general election
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1970· 3 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (1970–2013).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Education (1970–1974).
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Career landmark: member of the 45th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1970–1974).
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1968· 1 entry
Enoch Powell delivered his "Rivers of Blood" speech in which he strongly criticised Commonwealth immigration to the United Kingdom and the then-proposed Race Relations Bill
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1967· 1 entry
The United States Embassy chose Thatcher to take part in the International Visitor Leadership Program (then called the Foreign Leader Program), a professional exchange programme that allowed her to spend about six weeks
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1966· 1 entry
And, as Treasury spokeswoman, opposed Labour's mandatory price and income controls, arguing they would unintentionally produce effects that would distort the economy
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1961· 1 entry
Went against the Conservative Party's official position by voting for the restoration of birching as a judicial corporal punishment
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1954· 1 entry
Thatcher was defeated when she sought selection to be the Conservative Party candidate for the Orpington by-election of January 1955
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1952· 1 entry
After the Labour Party won its first majority on Grantham Council in 1950
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1950· 1 entry
Was the youngest Conservative candidate in the country
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1948· 2 entries
Applied for a job at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) but was rejected after the personnel department assessed her as "headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated"
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As a representative of the University Graduate Conservative Association
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1947· 2 entries
Studied at Somerville College, Bachelor of Science (1943–1947).
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With a second-class honours degree in chemistry, and in 1950 also received the degree of Master of Arts (as an Oxford BA, she was entitled to the degree 21 terms after her matriculation)
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1938· 1 entry
Before the Second World War, the Roberts family briefly gave sanctuary to a teenage Jewish girl who had escaped Nazi Germany
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-10-13.
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