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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher [nb 2] (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
Thatcher supported Britain's entry into the European Economic Community in 1973, campaigned for a "Yes" vote in the 1975 referendum [58] and signed the Single European Act in 1986. [ 59 ] Towards the end of the 1980s, Thatcher (and so Thatcherism) became increasingly vocal in its opposition to allowing the European Community to supersede ...
"Britain Awake" (also known as the Iron Lady speech) [1] was a speech made by British Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher at Kensington Town Hall, London, on 19 January 1976. The speech was strongly anti-Soviet , with Thatcher stating that the Soviet Union was "bent on world domination " and taking advantage of détente to make gains in ...
A leaflet explaining the Community Charge (the so-called "poll tax"), Department of the Environment, April 1989. The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of local taxation introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government whereby each taxpayer was taxed the same fixed sum (a "poll tax" or "head tax"), with the precise amount being set by each local authority.
Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher formed a government on 4 May 1979, with a mandate to reverse the UK's economic decline and to reduce the role of the state in the economy. . Thatcher was incensed by one contemporary view within the Civil Service that its job was to manage the UK's decline from the days of Empire, and wanted the country to punch above its weight in international
Margaret Thatcher in 1983. Thatcher expected Scargill to force a confrontation, and in response she set up a defence in depth. [41]: 355–364 [37]: 142–150 She believed that the excessive costs of increasingly inefficient collieries had to end in order to grow the economy. She planned to close inefficient pits and depend more on imported ...
In June 1984, Thatcher received a visit from P. W. Botha, the first South African premier to come to Britain since his nation had been removed from the Commonwealth in 1961. [107] Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Party , condemned the visit as a "diplomatic coup" for the South African government, [ 108 ] and Labour MEP Barbara Castle rallied ...
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 ...