Margaret Thatcher

1925 - 2013 20th Century British

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Margaret Thatcher, known as the 'Iron Lady,' was the United Kingdom's first female Prime Minister, serving from 1979 to 1990 as the longest-serving PM of the 20th century. Born Margaret Roberts in Grantham, she studied chemistry at Oxford, qualified as a barrister, and rose through Conservative politics, defeating Edward Heath for party leadership in 1975. Her transformative 'Thatcherite' policies included privatizing state industries, deregulating the economy, curbing trade union power, and asserting British resolve in the Falklands War, revitalizing the economy but polarizing society with her uncompromising free-market reforms and strong anti-socialist stance.

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