Stephen is a thatcher by trade and is busy maintaining an ancient art which was handed down over the generations. |
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It was then carded and arranged neatly in bundles, which the thatcher took with him onto the roof. |
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It all began when she met another thatcher in Limerick in the early 1990s when she began to help him with his work. |
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They supplied their own thatch from barley grown on the island and the thatcher would stay on the island till the job was done. |
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The rye straw would be scutched or flayed during the long winter nights, sheafed and left ready for the thatcher. |
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Then, with a sigh, she concluded her duty by bringing Thatcher his tea and bread. |
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He presented himself as a supremely patrician figure, so different from the vulgar parvenues of the Thatcher cabinet. |
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As Dr White points out, even Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill took power naps. |
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He was officially exposed as a spy by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and was stripped of his knighthood. |
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The authoritarian populism of Thatcher and Reagan were two such successful employments of neo-liberalism by politicians on the right. |
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No investigatory tribunal has ever been established for the Thatcher period. |
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Margaret Thatcher covered her status as a woman when she trained with a voice coach to lower the timbre of her voice. |
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In the Thatcher years, he would turn more to that pawky humour which played around his head and lips throughout his career. |
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Neo-liberalism, which officially began here with Mrs Thatcher, has not yet finished its dirty work. |
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He was a thatcher and thatched roofs in the white suburbs of Johannesburg. |
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Mrs. Thatcher once famously remarked that there is no such thing as society. |
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It is understood that no approach has yet been made to Thatcher herself over the plans. |
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As a hardline right-winger in the early 1990s I was personally anointed by Margaret Thatcher as her chosen successor. |
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The worst period in my working life was the period during the Thatcher years. |
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Certainly Margaret Thatcher did not make many efforts to hide her extreme right views on immigration. |
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It coincided with the rise of Thatcher and Reagan, and the loosening of capital restrictions world wide. |
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We knew that because we played our medium to small sized stadium gigs during the dog days of the third Thatcher term. |
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It's a roll of honour of historical figures over the last 300, 400 years, from Gandhi to Margaret Thatcher. |
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Margaret Thatcher was once driven, in a bullet-proof Rolls-Royce, past a group of angry placard-carrying demonstrators. |
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Thatcher lost nothing, making only a tactical retreat from a skirmish to prepare for the real battle. |
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When the work was not here in l983 during the Thatcher years, I went to Norway where the cost of living is double but so are the wages. |
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He spent most of his parliamentary life in opposition during the Thatcher years. |
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She had been joint head girl with Margaret Thatcher at Grantham Girls Grammar School. |
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Dad was a working-class Thatcherite before Thatcher, who believed you have to get out there and help yourself. |
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Margaret Thatcher once famously remarked that anyone over the age of 30 who was still using buses was a failure. |
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He told The Daily Beast that he was sure thatcher and the British public liked Reagan no matter what her senior staff thought. |
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Maggie Thatcher wasn't a politician, but an ordinary thrifty housewife who had somehow become Prime Minister. |
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The big event that shifted the way the media works was the Thatcher counter-revolution. |
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The gospel according to Margaret Thatcher and liberal economics have contributed much to this change of attitudes. |
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Margaret Thatcher was a famous bellyacher about the BBC and never more than when the imperial adventure on the Falklands was under scrutiny. |
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I remember him writing a poem against Mrs Thatcher that was an absolute belter. |
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Then came the Thatcher years and many established farming organisations were facing huge shake-ups. |
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That outdated notion seems to have disappeared circa 1979 when Mrs Thatcher swept her elected dictatorship into power. |
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She once toyed with writing a biography of Margaret Thatcher, the first time she's ever been interested in writing about a living person. |
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Familiar bends and twists in the hallway lead her past cubbyholes and labs of other Engletech researchers, including the bemused Thatcher. |
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No one could imagine Margaret Thatcher appearing on television to admit that she was fallible. |
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This haunting song was a brilliant musical evocation of the social devastation of the Thatcher years. |
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How a small British punk band fooled Reagan, thatcher, the MI6, and American spies. |
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Once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, she recalls rallies and marches during the turbulent Thatcher years. |
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He is one of the few men who had enough spine to stand up to Mrs Thatcher and thus found himself out of a job for fifteen years. |
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Thatcher set out to redraw the domestic political map as the geopolitical map of Europe was being transformed. |
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Qualified though my admiration for Lady Thatcher may be, I find it hard to believe that she'd have nuked Buenos Aires just to make a point. |
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Objectively, his standards of conduct regarding financial matters are well below those of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. |
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All at once, the group of functionaries simultaneously lock Thatcher in a close embrace, surrounding her from all sides. |
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They survived being handbagged by Mrs Thatcher, but have they found breathing space beneath Tony Blair's sandbags? |
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Baroness Thatcher, dressed all in black, looked frail as she clasped the handrail for support before being driven away. |
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But then the fictional President Bartlett and the real Baroness Thatcher are made of sterner stuff than happy-clappy trendy vicars. |
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You learn how to wake up at the slightest sound and survive on less sleep than Mrs Thatcher. |
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All post-war Prime Ministers up to Margaret Thatcher reiterated the same view. |
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They have to reinvent themselves and jettison anyone tarred with the brush of Thatcher if they are ever again to challenge. |
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I grinned as I shoved his face in the snow and Thatcher administered the wedgie. |
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Margaret Thatcher used the re-shuffle as an act of terror, exterminating wets and savaging useful fall guys. |
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The Thatcher government set out to rationalise Britain's state-run industries in preparation for privatisation. |
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Baroness Thatcher is currently a member of the House of Lords and an honorary fellow at the Hoover Institution. |
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Lady Thatcher launched a stinging attack on Mr Clarke, who held a string of Cabinet posts in her governments. |
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In doing so, it re-examines many of the received opinions on the Thatcher years. |
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Caroline merely tucked a curl behind her ear and withered him with a stare she had studied from Margaret Thatcher until he wilted completely. |
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In 1999 his charity work gained him a knighthood to add to his life peerage from Margaret Thatcher. |
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The future, as foreseen by Douglas Hurd, erstwhile Foreign Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, looks intriguing. |
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Brenda Maddox, who had written a biography of Thatcher to accompany the programme, credits Dennis Thatcher with liberating his wife from her repressive background. |
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Margaret Thatcher is to be accorded a send-off filled with pomp and ceremony in London on Wednesday. |
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Beckham was initially fortunate to escape a booking for a high challenge on Thatcher, but he has still not managed to restrain his hot-blooded temperament. |
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This quote is supposed to confirm Thatcher as an anti-social radical individualist of the Ayn Rand distemper. |
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Now, the Labour Party is up in arms against a Thatcher state funeral. |
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In November 1983 Gandhi hosted Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth at a Commonwealth Summit in New Delhi. |
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Being politically astute, even in her dotage, baroness Thatcher was aware what contention that could create. |
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The collection is enjoyable, and one can learn a fair bit about Thatcher herself, recent British political history, and oratory generally from listening. |
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Behind the ideological marriage of Reagan and Thatcher then, Rupert Murdoch was the best man. |
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Both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair bestrode their nation for periods in excess of two U.S. presidential terms. |
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Author Hilary Mantel is under fire for writing a story about killing Margaret Thatcher. |
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But Lady Thatcher is not a boardwalk attraction to be gawped at by tourists from Palookaville. |
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Did you know that Britain's ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher trained to lower the pitch of her voice and improve her elocution so that she would sound more authoritative? |
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The late Margaret Thatcher had plenty of detractors, and many of them knew how to rock out. |
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Margaret Thatcher had served under the Heath regime as Education Secretary and witnessed the miners topple the Conservative party. |
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Even Thatcher herself wouldn't have dreamed that the king rat builders would so effectively take over an entire country's development with no real opposition. |
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Documents released by the British archives reveal Thatcher as a hard-nosed opponent of Israel's West Bank settlement project. |
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The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher. |
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Lawson resigned in disgust, and a year later Thatcher was history too. |
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Unlike Thatcher, he had been skilful at PMQ while opposition leader, and he carried it over into his own government. |
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Where were you on the day Margaret Thatcher fell from power? |
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Along with other High Commissioners I went to Lusaka airport to receive Mrs Thatcher. |
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Thatcher had cried when the lines were originally suggested by her speechwriter Ronald Miller. |
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The public, though, will also recall many MPs were not enamoured of Margaret Thatcher, barring the fact that she delivered repeated election victories. |
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Being unencumbered by any public baggage from the Thatcher or Major days is a clear plus, although this comes hand in hand with a whopping lack of experience. |
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A book on British politics based on the 1980s and early 1990s inevitably bore the heavy impress of Mrs Thatcher and the ideas and policies associated with her. |
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The second document released is a handwritten letter from Murdoch to Thatcher from his Eaton Place home. |
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Margaret Thatcher didn't do it when she handbagged Reagan over Grenada. |
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But her resilient, pragmatic approach won over voters who could arguably have been once bitten, twice shy about returning any sort of Thatcher to victory. |
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Thatcher and her allies risked everything and reaped a rich reward. |
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Significantly, Mrs Thatcher was in Paris in November 1990 when she learned the result of the first ballot of the leadership contest with Michael Heseltine. |
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The college became a bastion of Conservatism in the Thatcher Era. |
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Denis Thatcher got on well with the Queen Mother, enjoyed a drink as much as she did, and was punctilious about royal protocol. |
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The Prime Minister was The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher. |
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Which would be fine if the 1980s really was the best thing since leg-warmers, sweatbands, Prince, Madonna, Thatcher, strikes, riots and Hillsborough. |
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Lady Thatcher dipped her toe into public service reform but that was never seen through because she fell from power and the Tories were then overtaken by events. |
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By terrifying coincidence, this was the one poem that Thatcher herself thought to recall and misquote when she first met Larkin. |
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My books talk about communist expansionism being turned back around the world with the help of Margaret Thatcher, the Pope, and many brave souls in Europe. |
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Downing Street is a sea of 1980s swaggy curtains and has a bathroom designed by Lady Thatcher which has lino. |
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The delegation comprised Director International Broadcasting Bureau VoA, David Ensor and Director Liaison IBB VOA Gary Thatcher. |
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The former Thatcher glove puppet doesn't believe in Europe, you see, but then again he doesn't al warming believe in global warming either. |
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Maggie Thatcher was a screeching peacock, and John Major a dreary peahen, while Tony Blair was a viper in Labour's bosom. |
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Both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair have perviously featured in the sci-fi series. |
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If you want a ditherer for PM then vote Tory, if you want a Margaret Thatcher for PM then vote UKIP, but if you want sanity then vote Labour. |
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Both had similar escape clauses to Thatcher in their contracts which were activated when Micky Adams' side were relegated. |
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I JUST want to say that I am sick of reading all the comments from blinkered and bigoted Labour supporters ranting about Mrs Thatcher. |
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Finlay worked with Nuneaton-based thatcher Spencer Jenkins on the project, and the work is installed near the Jam Grove and underplanted with bee-friendly plants. |
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Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, was Britain's first female Prime Minister. |
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Instead, an extradiegetic narrator renders detached testimony of the hero's traumatic story in the Thatcher era. |
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Loss of power weakened Heath's control over the party and Margaret Thatcher deposed him in the 1975 leadership election. |
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The new owners were more likely to vote Conservative, as Thatcher had hoped. |
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The British economy benefitted in the first Thatcher ministry by tax income from North Sea oil coming on stream. |
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Thatcherites and economic liberals in the party tend to support Atlanticism, something exhibited between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. |
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Thatcher herself claimed philosophical inspiration from the works of Burke and Friedrich Hayek for her defence of liberal economics. |
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In the 1979 general election Labour was heavily defeated by the Conservatives now led by Margaret Thatcher. |
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Its libertarian views have been influenced by classical liberalism and Thatcherism, with Thatcher representing a key influence on UKIP's thought. |
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Since the Thatcher era, the Conservative Party have since struggled to gain support in the area. |
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In 1970 Margaret Thatcher became Secretary of State for Education of the new Conservative government. |
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Previously, the School has hosted figures including Nelson Mandela and Margaret Thatcher. |
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During the 1980s it supported Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan's monetarist policies. |
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Maggie Thatcher came in and put the taxes back down and in the end, you know, you don't mind paying tax. |
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It passed by one vote on 28 March 1979, forcing the May 1979 general election, which was won by the Conservatives led by Margaret Thatcher. |
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In 1979 newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rejected and reversed it. |
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Talk resumed in the 1970s, but in the 1980s the Thatcher administration made it clear it would not accept a national minimum wage. |
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A polarising figure for Britons, Thatcher nonetheless ranks highly among historians, and generally fares well in contemporary opinion polls. |
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In her first six months as Prime Minister, Thatcher repeatedly prioritised defence spending over economic policy and financial control. |
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When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, Thatcher saw it as a typical example of relentless Communist imperialism. |
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Thatcher supported the American plan to boycott the Moscow Olympics, as did Parliament. |
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In three days Thatcher assembled and sent a naval task force to take back control. |
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The miners' strike was the central political event of the second Thatcher Administration. |
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The reforms were also aimed, Thatcher claimed, to democratise the unions, and return power to the members. |
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Thatcher expected a major confrontation, planned ahead for one, and avoided trouble before she was ready. |
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He notified Thatcher a few hours before the invasion, but he did not ask her consent. |
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Thatcher insisted on private financing for the British share, and the City assured her that private enterprise was eager to fund it. |
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He was weakened by his party's commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament at a time Thatcher was helping to end the Cold War. |
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Thatcher responded by demoting Howe and by listening more to her adviser Sir Alan Walters on economic matters. |
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However Thatcher had also set the freeing of Mandela as a condition of friendship with the white government. |
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Thatcher said the European Community's voluntary ban on new investment should be lifted when Mandela was released. |
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Bush wanted to make NATO more of a political than a military alliance, Thatcher, spoke out for the importance of the military role. |
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Thatcher gave strong support to President Bush in reversing Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, to which she sent over 45,000 troops. |
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In November 1989 Thatcher was challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Sir Anthony Meyer. |
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Billy Bragg and Paul Weller helped to form the Red Wedge collective to support Labour in opposition to Thatcher. |
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Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts on 13 October 1925, in Grantham, Lincolnshire. |
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Thatcher was to describe this in her memoirs as among the significant events of her formative years. |
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Thatcher was the youngest woman in history to receive such a post, and among the first MPs elected in 1959 to be promoted. |
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By 1966, party leaders viewed Thatcher as a potential Shadow Cabinet member. |
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After Pike's retirement, Heath appointed Thatcher later that year to the Shadow Cabinet as Fuel and Power spokesman. |
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Thatcher supported Lord Rothschild's 1971 proposal for market forces to affect government funding of research. |
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Thatcher was not initially the obvious replacement, but she eventually became the main challenger, promising a fresh start. |
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Thatcher had already begun to work on her presentation on the advice of Gordon Reece, a former television producer. |
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Thatcher was Leader of the Opposition and Prime Minister at a time of increased racial tension in Britain. |
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As Prime Minister, Thatcher met weekly with Queen Elizabeth II to discuss government business, and their relationship came under close scrutiny. |
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It was revealed in December 2016 that Thatcher had herself failed to register for the poll tax and was threatened with a penalty fine. |
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Miners had helped bring down the Heath government, and Thatcher was determined to succeed where he had failed. |
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The Thatcher government encouraged growth in the finance and service sectors to compensate for Britain's ailing manufacturing industry. |
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Thatcher was staying at the hotel to attend the Conservative Party conference, which she insisted should open as scheduled the following day. |
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China was the first communist state Thatcher had visited and she was the first British prime minister to visit China. |
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Thatcher was one of the first Western leaders to respond warmly to reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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Thatcher was replaced as Prime Minister and party leader by her Chancellor John Major, who prevailed over Heseltine in the subsequent ballot. |
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Thatcher had favoured Major over Heseltine in the leadership contest, but her support for him weakened in later years. |
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Thatcher returned to the backbenches as the parliamentarian for her constituency after leaving the premiership. |
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On 11 June 2004, Thatcher, against doctor's orders, attended the state funeral service for Ronald Reagan. |
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In early 2005 Thatcher criticised the way the decision to invade Iraq had been made two years previously. |
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In February 2007, Thatcher became the first living British prime minister to be honoured with a statue in the Houses of Parliament. |
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After collapsing at a House of Lords dinner, Thatcher was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in central London on 7 March 2008 for tests. |
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Earlier that month, Thatcher had been named the most competent British prime minister of the past 30 years in an Ipsos MORI poll. |
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Baroness Thatcher died on 8 April 2013, at the age of 87, after suffering a stroke. |
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On 28 September a service for Thatcher was held in the All Saints Chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea's Margaret Thatcher Infirmary. |
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Sociologists Mark Mitchell and Dave Russell responded that Thatcher had been badly misinterpreted. |
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In January 1978 Thatcher launched an attack on immigration with the goal of attracting voters away from the NF and back to the Conservatives. |
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Muhammad Anwar said that Thatcher made no major speeches on race while she was Prime Minister. |
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In 1999, Time magazine named Thatcher one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century. |
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The album was released in September 1979, four months after Thatcher was elected Prime Minister. |
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Spitting Image, a British TV show, satirised Thatcher as a bully who ridiculed her own ministers. |
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Thatcher has been depicted in many television programmes, documentaries, films and plays. |
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Thatcher became a member of the House of Lords in 1992 with a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire. |
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In the UK, Big Bang became one of the cornerstones of the Thatcher government's reform programme. |
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In 1986, the Greater London Council was abolished by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. |
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Examples are William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair. |
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Thatcher herself was worried it would lead to widespread attacks on British interests in the middle East. |
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Both Reagan and new British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher denounced the Soviet Union and its ideology. |
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In 2017 inequality has been forecast to return to the levels of the Thatcher years. |
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In 1981 the airline was instructed to prepare for privatisation by the Conservative Thatcher government. |
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In 1987, the Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher enacted it into UK law. |
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Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, it is said, used to carry a copy of the book in her handbag. |
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The party's commitments to a devolved Scottish Assembly were to decline under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. |
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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wrote to President Carter on 10 July 1980, to request that he approve supply of Trident I missiles. |
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Manson cites actress Glenn Close and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as her acting influences for the ambiguous character. |
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Channel 4 was considered for privatisation by the governments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair. |
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In April 2013, Jenkins attended the funeral of Baroness Thatcher in St Paul's Cathedral. |
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William Whitelaw was created a hereditary viscount on the recommendation of Margaret Thatcher. |
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Macmillan was one of several people who advised Thatcher to set up a small War Cabinet to manage the Falklands War. |
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As Chancellor of Oxford University, Macmillan condemned its refusal in February 1985 to award Thatcher an honorary degree. |
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Set in a working Washeteria in London during the Thatcher era, this bold film focuses on relationships between white and Asian communities. |
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Like Thatcher before him, he is trying to be a backseat driver of his former party, which is definitely a retrograde step for the Labour Party. |
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At first, Mrs Thatcher did not understand how Scots could be so revulsed by her political creed. |
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Thatcher was made of sterner stuff than the blimpish Grocer, and eventually faced down Scargill and his troops. |
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Margaret Thatcher and Mr Blair have scrumpled up and scorched the notion the Cabinet is a meeting of equals. |
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Margaret Thatcher might have been able to get by on four hours' sleep per night, but her relationshipwith shut-eye was by no means normal. |
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Former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher is believed to have suffered a mini stroke when she complained of feeling faint earlier this month. |
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As a teenager he belonged to the far-right Monday Club and idolised Margaret Thatcher. |
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A SPITTING Image Margaret Thatcher puppet is expected to fetch PS8,000 at auction on Wednesday. |
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Thatcher and her henchmen are not dead, they live on in the present set of privileged, uncaring and unpatriotic chinless wonders. |
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A dozen premiers, from Churchill via Wilson and Thatcher through Blair, Brown and Cameron, valued their weekly chinwags with her. |
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Sir Peter Vardy founded Emmanuel College in 1988 as one of the country's first city technology colleges under the then Thatcher Government. |
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Bruce Riedel on the kinship between Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi. |
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A FORMER Conservative club once visited by Margaret Thatcher is now operating as a strip bar, the Sunday Mercury can reveal. |
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Kevin Keegan was considering drafting Thatcher into his squad before his forearm smash on Sunderland's Nicky Summerbee. |
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There were echoes the Poll Tax riots which dogged the Thatcher years. |
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In the 1980s Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was ona mission to denationalise industries and let the full force of the market rip through Britain. |
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Nobody has gone after members of the Thatcher Government who lavished taxpayers' money on the disgraceful ad campaign that made personal pensions a doddle to mis-sell. |
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The puppets of politicians can spout off the same nonsense, slag off the Tories and the state of the town, blame Margaret Thatcher for everything else. |
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The Tories had not recovered from their treacherous act of the matricidal back-stabbing of Margaret Thatcher, a Prime Minister who had led them to three victories. |
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Were we really only two decades from the greed-is-good philosophy embodied by Margaret Thatcher and Gordon Gekko, the Michael Douglas character inWall Street? |
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Yet when the spectacularly successful Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel murders Thatcher in a new story there is talk of reporting her to the rozzers. |
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Margaret Thatcher tried to do it again, digging in her heels, lecturing archly on her achievements, illuminating our European partners on the superior virtue of her ways. |
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But Lambsdorff was a free marketeer through and through, with a lot in common with Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and eventually he broke with Schmidt and the Social Democrats. |
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The idyllic beach, popular for windsurfing and kitesurfing, is also just a few miles east of Constantine Bay, where Margaret Thatcher used to holiday regularly. |
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Weren't they forced to work in Silesian coal mines, just as Thatcher was kind-heartedly releasing our colliers from the hardship of having to graft underground? |
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What Baroness Thatcher, the lady who wasn't for turning, must make of all these ducks, dives and about-turns by David Cameron and his ministers is anyone's guess. |
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Margaret Thatcher is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Denis Thatcher is her husband, and Mark Thatcher and Carol Thatcher are Thatcher's children. |
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Beckham made more headlines on 9 October 2004 when he admitted intentionally fouling Ben Thatcher in an England match against Wales to get himself booked. |
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As a university student in the 1960s, he had been a radical leftist, but changed his views when he went to heckle a young local member of parliament, Margaret Thatcher. |
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The 18 years of Conservative government, under Margaret Thatcher and then John Major, saw strong resistance to any proposal for devolution for Scotland, and for Wales. |
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In the 1980s, because many coal mines were unprofitable, the Conservative government headed by Margaret Thatcher sought to close them and privatise the rest. |
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In 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
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However, it was in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan in the United States that privatization gained worldwide momentum. |
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Thatcher was lampooned by satirist John Wells in several media. |
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Thatcher was the subject or the inspiration for 1980s protest songs. |
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Thatcher flew to California with the Reagan entourage, and attended the memorial service and interment ceremony for the president at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. |
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In 1998, Thatcher called for the release of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet when Spain had him arrested and sought to try him for human rights violations. |
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Although Thatcher won the first ballot with 204 to 152 votes and 16 abstentions, Heseltine had attracted sufficient support to force a second ballot. |
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Thatcher wanted to prevent the creation of a Scottish assembly. |
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Carolyn Sinclair, a policy adviser, suggested that Thatcher proceed cautiously in working with black communities because she believed they gave cannabis to babies. |
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Though she initially stated that she intended to contest the second ballot, Thatcher decided, after consulting with her Cabinet colleagues, to withdraw from the contest. |
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Thatcher easily defeated Meyer's challenge, but there were sixty ballot papers either cast for Meyer or abstaining, a surprisingly large number for a sitting Prime Minister. |
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Lawson resigned that October, feeling that Thatcher had undermined him. |
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Thatcher and Mitterrand agreed on the project and set up study groups. |
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Thatcher took a personal interest in the Coventry Four, and 10 Downing Street requested daily summaries of the case from the prosecuting authority, HM Customs and Excise. |
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Thatcher resisted international pressure to impose economic sanctions on South Africa, where the United Kingdom was the biggest foreign investor and principal trading partner. |
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Thatcher was committed to reducing the power of the trade unions but, unlike the Heath government, adopted a strategy of incremental change rather than a single Act. |
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As a monetarist, Thatcher started out in her economic policy by increasing interest rates to slow the growth of the money supply and thus lower inflation. |
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The SNP group was reduced from 11 MPs to 2 in the 1979 general election, while devolution was opposed by the Conservative governments led by Thatcher and John Major. |
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Asquith, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron and most recently Theresa May. |
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As such, its usage is controversial, and at odds with the views of conservatives in other countries prepared to defend socialized medicine such as Margaret Thatcher. |
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The British government took no interest in funding the project, but Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister, said she had no objection to a privately funded project. |
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However, the Conservatives themselves had undergone a dramatic change in the change of leader from Thatcher to Major, at least in terms of style if not substance. |
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The Conservatives were in government for 18 years between 1979 and 1997, under the country's first ever female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and then under John Major. |
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Falkland Islander Rosie King told the Guardian what Thatcher meant to her. |
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