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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.
John Nott succeeded Francis Pym as Secretary of State for Defence. John Biffen succeeded Nott as Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade. Leon Brittan succeeded John Biffen as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Norman St John-Stevas resigned as Minister for the Arts. His successor was not in the Cabinet.
Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (born 8 March 1930) is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.
The day after Howe's speech Michael Heseltine, Thatcher's former Secretary of State for Defence who had acrimoniously resigned in 1986 over the Westland affair, challenged Thatcher for the leadership of the Conservative Party. [18] [17] Both John Major and Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd supported Thatcher in the first round. Major was at home ...
Charles Moore, in his authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, said that Bill Deedes believed that Thatcher "seem[ed] convinced" Heath was gay, whilst Moore believed it is "possible" that Thatcher's reference, in interview in 1974, to Heath not having a family, was a deliberate hint that he was gay, in order to discredit him.
Margaret Thatcher: Preceded by: Tony Newton: Succeeded by: Nicholas Scott: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security; In office 2 September 1985 – 10 September 1986: Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher: Preceded by: John Patten: Succeeded by: Nicholas Lyell: Lord Commissioner of the Treasury; In office 3 October 1984 – 1 ...
Margaret Thatcher in 1990. The 1990 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were officially announced in The London Gazette of 21 December 1990 and marked the resignation of the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who had stepped down from the role in November that year after more than 11 years in office and nearly 16 years as Leader of the Conservative Party.
Succeeded by: Margaret Thatcher: Leader of the Opposition; In office 4 May 1979 – 10 November 1980: Monarch: Elizabeth II: Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher: Preceded by: Margaret Thatcher: Succeeded by: Michael Foot: Leader of the Labour Party; In office 5 April 1976 – 10 November 1980: Deputy: Michael Foot: Preceded by: Harold Wilson ...