Friday, April 12, 2013

Margaret Thatcher dead

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, died following a stroke.

She was 87 and was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism

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