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On leaving the Commons, Thatcher became the first former British prime minister to set up a foundation; [293] the British wing of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation was dissolved in 2005 due to financial difficulties. [294] She wrote two volumes of memoirs, The Downing Street Years (1993) and The Path to Power (1995).
Her decisiveness—christened the "resolute approach" by the Prime Minister herself—became Thatcher's trademark and a source of her popularity. [35] In the words of one historian: The mood reflected Mrs Thatcher's Iron Lady stance, her proclaimed intention of laying the "Suez Syndrome" to rest and again projecting Britain as a great power.
The Conservatives won the election with a majority of 43 seats and their leader Margaret Thatcher became the United Kingdom's first female prime minister. Thatcher inherited some of the worst economic statistics of postwar Britain. The nation was still feeling the effects of the numerous strikes during the recent Winter of Discontent. Inflation ...
Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, and Callaghan was replaced as Labour leader by Michael Foot in 1980. The results of the election were broadcast live on the BBC, and presented by David Dimbleby and Robin Day, with Robert McKenzie on the "Swingometer", and further analysis provided by David Butler. [2]
Top left: Robert Walpole is considered the first prime minister of Great Britain. Top right: Winston Churchill was prime minister during much of World War II. Bottom left: Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister. Bottom right: Keir Starmer is the incumbent prime minister.
Margaret Thatcher – Prime Minister; The Viscount Whitelaw – Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council; The Lord Havers – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain; John Wakeham – Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal; Nigel Lawson – Chancellor of the Exchequer
The shadow chancellor used The Independent’s disclosure that Richard Huntington, strategy chief of the advertising firm that helped Margaret Thatcher become prime minister, to attack the ...
It gave the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of the Labour Party in 1945, with a majority of 144 seats and the first of two consecutive landslide victories. [1] Thatcher's first term as Prime Minister had not been an easy time. [2]