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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.
On 8 April 2013, at 11:28 BST(10:28 UTC) the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, died of a stroke at the Ritz Hotel, London, at the age of 87. On 17 April, she was honoured with a ceremonial funeral. Due to polarised opinions about her achievements and legacy, the reaction to her death was mixed across the UK ...
Thatcher and François Mitterrand agreed on the project and set up study groups. Mitterrand as a socialist said the French government would pay its share. Thatcher insisted on private financing for the British share, and the City assured her that private enterprise was eager to fund it. Final decisions were announced in January 1986. [127] [128]
Margaret Thatcher, with her husband Denis (left), visiting Northern Ireland in 1982. Thatcher's outlook on Northern Ireland came from an inherently unionist position; she wanted a military victory over the IRA and "integration", that is, treating Northern Ireland like the rest of the UK, rather than having separate laws and political processes.
During that strike, Margaret Thatcher’s government used the state to violently crush the miners and their communities.” Mr Wrack said 11,313 miners were arrested, around 7,000 injured, 5,653 ...
Under Margaret Thatcher's watch the remaining stake was sold, with two big sales in 1979 and 1987. The 1987 offering coincided with a stock market crash and the stock was left with underwriters ...
The 1990 Conservative Party leadership election was called on 14 November 1990 following the decision of Michael Heseltine, former defence and environment secretary, to challenge Margaret Thatcher, the incumbent Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for leadership of the Conservative Party.
Sir Salman Rushdie has made the surprising revelation that it was Margaret Thatcher who inspired his decision to not name the knifeman who brutally attacked him in his new memoir.. The Indian-born ...