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The legislation came into effect during Margaret Thatcher's premiership on 24 May 1988. [4] It caused many organisations, such as LGBT student support groups to either close, limit their activities or to self-censor. [5] In addition, Section 28 had a widespread impact on schools across the United Kingdom.
At the 1987 Conservative Party Conference in Britain, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher issued one of the most grimly memorable quotes of her career: “Children who need to be taught to ...
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.
Margaret Thatcher, in a speech made during the Conservative Party Conference of 1987, referred to "hard left education authorities and extremist teachers" teaching "anti-racist mathematics—whatever that may be." [6] [7] and later on in 2005, Fox News carried a story detailing "The 'anti-racist education' program in place at Newton Public ...
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Margaret Thatcher in 1988. Thatcher has been described as Britain's most religious prime minister since William Ewart Gladstone. [2] She was raised as a Methodist and had preached as such in her Oxford years, but later she became a member of the Church of England. She understood her political convictions in terms of her faith.
The latest in the lineup is a real humdinger: Margaret Thatcher. Walter plays her opposite Steve Coogan in a new two-part Channel 4 docudrama, Brian and Maggie, ...
[26] [27] Margaret Thatcher denied that Powell was a racist, saying that the "Rivers of Blood" speech had been misquoted in the press. [28] Simon Heffer [ 29 ] and Patrick Cosgrave both absolve Powell of racial prejudice, with Cosgrave insisting that Powell was talking in terms of identity, not race.