Margaret thatcher

It is ten years since the death of Margaret Thatcher. Her political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. Born in October 1925 at Grantham, a small market town in eastern England, she rose to become the first (and for two decades the only) woman to lead a major Western democracy. She won three successive General Elections and served as British Prime Minister for more than eleven years (1979-90), a record unmatched in the twentieth century. During her term of office she reshaped almost every aspect of British politics, reviving the economy, reforming outdated institutions, and reinvigorating the nation's foreign policy. She challenged and did much to overturn the psychology of decline which had become rooted in Britain since the Second World War, pursuing national recovery with striking energy and determination. In the process, Margaret Thatcher became one of the founders, with Ronald Reagan, of a school of conservative conviction politics, which has had a powerful and enduring impact on politics in Britain and the United States and earned her a higher international profile than any British politician since Winston Churchill. By successfully shifting British economic and foreign policy to the right, her governments helped to encourage wider international trends which broadened and deepened during the 1980s and 1990s, as the end of the Cold War, the spread of democracy, and the growth of free markets strengthened political and economic freedom in every conti...

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• v • t • e In domestic policy, Thatcher implemented sweeping reforms concerning the In her first years she had a deeply divided cabinet. As the leader of the :34 By the late 1980s, however, she had alienated several senior members of her Cabinet with her opposition to greater economic integration into the First term (1979–1983) [ ] Thatcher was Britain and Europe's first female prime minister. Thatcher, having to share the media spotlight with :464–467 Tensions between the two were kept hidden until 1986, when the Sunday Times reported on the Queen's alleged criticism of Thatcher's policies, especially regarding the people of the Commonwealth, as "uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive." Thatcher often ridiculed the Commonwealth, which the Queen held in very high esteem. :575–577,584 Economic affairs [ ] Biographer [S]he was at a loss to reply. What in fact she meant was Government support for inefficient industries, punitive taxation, regulation of the labour market, price controls–everything that interfered with the functioning of the free economy. :95 Deflationary strategy [ ] Under Margaret Thatcher's government, the taming of inflation displaced high employment as the primary policy objective. :630 As a :630 These moves hit businesses—especially the manufacturing sector—and unemployment exceeded 2 million by the autumn of 1980, up from 1.5million at the time of Thatcher's Political commentators harked back to the Unemployment [ ] In 1981, as unemployment soa...

The house where Margaret Thatcher was born. (Credit: Thorvaldsson/Wikimedia Commons) Born Margaret Hilda Roberts, the future prime minister was the daughter of a grocer and local alderman who later became mayor of Grantham, England. The cramped apartment above her father’s corner store in which Thatcher grew up lacked running water, central heating and even an indoor toilet. 2. Before entering politics, Thatcher worked as a food scientist developing soft-serve ice cream. Although she planned to pursue a political career, Thatcher graduated from Oxford University in 1947 with a chemistry degree. After a stint as a research chemist for a plastics company, Thatcher worked as a food scientist at J. Lyons and Co. where she was part of a team that found a method to increase the amount of air injected into ice cream so that it could be manufactured with fewer ingredients at a lower cost. The breakthrough led to the production of soft-serve ice cream, which was dished out from trucks across Great Britain under the brand Mr. Whippy. 3. She lost her first two parliamentary elections. Receiving Presidential Medal Of Freedom. Thatcher, who was one of the first female presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association, gained the notice of the Conservative Party soon after her graduation. As a 24-year-old, she was the youngest candidate to stand for a seat in the House of Commons during the election of 1950. Adopting the slogan “Vote Right to Keep What’s Left,” Thatcher faced...