Thatcher Dies: The Iron Lady's Divisive Legacy Endures
Margaret Thatcher arrived at 10 Downing Street in 1979 quoting St. Francis of Assisi about harmony and hope. She then broke the trade unions, privatized British Telecom, British Gas, British Airways, and British Steel, fought a war over a group of islands in the South Atlantic most people couldn't find on a map, and won three elections. Her supporters called it a revolution. Her opponents called it something else. She was Britain's first female Prime Minister and, at the time, Europe's longest-serving head of government. Died April 8, 2013.
April 8, 2013
13 years ago
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