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3 days ago · 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.
3 days ago · In 1979 Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government had been voted into power in the United Kingdom on a largely law-and-order ticket. Thatcher led an administration of the radical Right, close in politics to Ronald Reagan’s Republicanism in the United States, bound to laissez-faire economics, to incentives for work, cutting back on the welfare state, and a heavily punitive response to ...
5 hours ago · Britain and the United States are often viewed as operating under the same political weather system — the conservative turn to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the pivot to youth and the ...
2 days ago · John Swinney has claimed Scotland is still suffering the consequences from Margaret Thatcher’s time as prime minister and the ‘devastation’ she ‘wreaked’ on the country. The First ...
2 days ago · John Swinney blames Margaret Thatcher for Scotland’s woes in last desperate election shot First Ministers relies on despairing excuses rather than acknowledge the litany of failures from his ...
1 day ago · Disturbed by trade union power and strikes, and attracted by then Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher’s promises of low taxes and sales of council houses to tenants, working-class voters in Essex began turning from their parents’ instinctive Labour support in the 1970s and 1980s.
3 days ago · John Major's term as the prime minister of the United Kingdom began on 28 November 1990 when he accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, succeeding Margaret Thatcher, and ended on 2 May 1997 following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 general election by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair.
