Margaret Thatcher

The Iron Lady · Prime Minister · Prime Minister of Britain · 1925–2013

Britain's first female Prime Minister — grocer's daughter, chemist, barrister, conviction politician.

Explore the life of Thatcher — five chapters

1. Above the Shop in Grantham — A Methodist upbringing and a chemistry degree
2. Milk Snatcher to Party Leader — An unexpected challenge in 1975
3. The Medicine and the Cost — Inflation, unemployment and the miners' strike
4. The Falklands, the Cold War and South Africa — Abroad, where her judgement ran both ways
5. The Poll Tax and the Fall — Removed by her own party

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