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Margaret Thatcher

prime minister of United Kingdom
Also known as: Iron Lady, Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven(Show More)
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Political columnist, The Guardian. Author of This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair, The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher, and others.
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Margaret Thatcher (born October 13, 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England—died April 8, 2013, London) was a British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827, she accelerated the evolution of the British economy from statism to liberalism and became, by personality as much...

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