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Thatcher suffered several small strokes in 2002 and was advised by her doctors not to engage in any more public speaking. [1] On 23 March she announced the cancellation of her planned speaking engagements and that she would accept no more. [2] Despite her illness, she pre-recorded a eulogy for the funeral of Ronald Reagan in June 2004.
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.
The series is from Baby Cow Productions. It is directed by Stephen Frears and written by James Graham, with Steve Coogan starring as television interviewer Brian Walden and Harriet Walter co-starring as former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Margaret Thatcher initially believed she had lost the vote after a rough calculation as to the vote's outcome had been made without counting the two Conservative tellers who had counted the votes. Due to the closeness of the vote, there is some debate as to whether deals could have been made which would have kept the government in power.
Now for another short-and-sweet definition: Neoliberalism is "the free economy and the strong state," to borrow from historian Andrew Gamble's description of Margaret Thatcher's rule in 1980s Britain.
The incumbent Margaret Thatcher was opposed by the little-known 69-year-old backbencher MP Sir Anthony Meyer. It was the Conservative Party's first leadership election for nearly 15 years, when Thatcher had taken the party leadership.
The Thatcher government returned it to the private sector in 1987, since when it has prospered to be one of three global manufacturers of big engines. In a companion piece, I'll cover the four ...
The V&A has said that the the label text will be reviewed and will ‘update the wording if necessary’.