Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Hilda Thatcher was born on 13th October 1925 and served as the leader of the conservative party and as the British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 . The reason why I picked Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is because she was the only woman to have served in both the above posts . She also did remarkable things during her term such as taking a hard line stand against unions , opposing the Soviet Union and surviving

br an assassination attempt . Her hard-line character earned her the nickname `Iron Lady . As the Prime Minister she was very significant historical figure not only in UK but the world as whole . Apart from being the only woman to serve as the prime minister of the United Kingdom , she was one of the longest serving leaders and also one of the longest continuous periods in the Prime Minister 's office . She became the first woman to head a major political party in the United Kingdom and the first of only three to serve one of the four great offices of the state . Baroness Thatcher also life peerage as Baroness of Kesteven Lincolnshire and is entitled to sit in the House of Lords (Letwin 101

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Firm and decisive

Margaret Thatcher gained her nickname the iron lady after she made a scathing attack on the USSR . In a Kensington Town hall speech she made on January 1976 , she declared the Soviet as bent on world...