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  1. e. Margaret Thatcher 's term as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 4 May 1979 when she accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, and ended on 28 November 1990 upon her resignation. She was elected to the position in 1979, having led the Conservative Party since 1975, and won landslide re-elections for the ...

  2. He credits Nancy and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with persuading Reagan to shift from Soviet hardliner to negotiator-in-chief after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union.

  3. Truss was the last Conservative leader to believe she was another Margaret Thatcher; Kemi Badenoch demonstrates her unfitness to lead by now declaring she’s the next.

  4. other amazing roles. when you were thinking about inhabiting her character, or indeed any of the women you've played, how much are you thinking about, if i was a woman — and i wonder if you're even thinking about what margaret thatcher's sexual fantasies might have been. i did not think about margaret thatcher's sexual fantasies. maybe that's best. she obviously had died many years before ...

  5. James Cleverly and Robert Jenrick will face a grilling from Conservative members on the main stage of the party conference during its penultimate day. The two hopefuls to succeed Rishi Sunak will follow in the footsteps of rivals Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat, who were questioned by members on Monday. The Birmingham conference, a subdued ...

  6. Coal has fueled civil strife as well as powering the country. Tens of thousands of miners walked out in 1984 over plans by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government to close more than 20 coal pits. The strike lasted a year, divided communities and saw widespread violence as police clashed with pickets.

  7. Abstract. This chapter is a case study of newspaper reportage of pertussis/whooping cough vaccination programmes in the UK in the period 1974–1979. The chapter uses digitalised archive data and compares the utility of semantic network analysis and qualitative discourse analysis to understanding how the topic came to be framed in the UK press.