"war and defeated Argentina to recover the Falkland Islands. She was a leader in the coalition against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. She developed an excellent relationship with U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Since the death of Margaret Thatcher in 2013, several government documents relating to her premiership have been declassified and released by the National Archives. Papers released in December 2014 show that Thatcher completely disapproved of GCSEs which, in 1986, Sir Keith Joseph was trying to introduce in the face of fierce opposition from teaching unions. At very least she wanted a 2-year delay to ensure rigorous syllabuses and adequate"
"relieved when the proposal failed. All in all, Britain's needs figured more prominently in American thinking strategy than anyone else. Peter Hennessy, a leading historian, singles out the personal dynamic of ""Ron"" and ""Margaret"" in this success: In his personal diary, George H. W. Bush wrote that his first impression of Thatcher was she was principled but very difficult. Bush also wrote that Thatcher, ""talks all the time when you're in a conversation. It's a one-way street."" Despite having developed a warm relation with Reagan, whom Bush had served under as vice president, Thatcher never developed a similar sense of"
"one of the most businesslike and effective of all the UK Prime Ministers. His leadership style of consensual government, acting as a chairman rather than a president, won him much praise from historians and politicians alike. Christopher Soames, the British Ambassador to France during the Conservative government of Edward Heath and cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, remarked that ""Mrs Thatcher was not really running a team. Every time you have a Prime Minister who wants to make all the decisions, it mainly leads to bad results. Attlee didn't. That's why he was so damn good."" Thatcher herself wrote in her"
"Foundation in 2006, where she established the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her ""The 'Iron Lady, a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies known as Thatcherism."
"but our ability to collect friends"". Conversely, ""the success or failure of United States foreign economic peace aims depended almost entirely on its ability to win or extract the co-operation of Great Britain"". Reflecting on the symbiosis, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1982 declared: ""The Anglo-American relationship has done more for the defence and future of freedom than any other alliance in the world"". While most government officials on both sides have supported the Special Relationship, there have been sharp critics. British journalist Guy Arnold (b. 1932) denounced it in 2014 as a ""sickness in the body politic of Britain"
"judged to be Anthony Eden. Historian Francis Beckett ranked the 20th-century prime ministers with points out of five in 2006, based on how well the leaders implemented their policies—not on the policies themselves. Margaret Thatcher and Clement Attlee shared the highest ranking. In September 2008 the BBC ""Newsnight"" programme conducted an online poll. Asking voters to decide who they thought was the greatest and worst of post-war prime ministers. 27,000 people responded, and decided that Winston Churchill was the greatest, with Attlee second. The full results were: In a BBC poll to find the 100 Greatest Britons in 2002, five"
"of the Anglo-American alliance. In his articles on domestic U.S. politics, Gardiner has praised and appealed to the Tea Party movement in American political debate, calling it the most influential political movement of the decade. Gardiner was a prominent and long-time supporter of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union or Brexit from his position at the Heritage Foundation, and hosted key talks in support before the British vote on 23 June 2016. As someone who worked for Margaret Thatcher he maintained, ""The Iron Lady believed firmly that Britain would be better off outside the European Union."""
"""He is by far the ablest man now standing in the English-speaking pulpit. He stands in the pulpit of Thomas Goodwin, the Atlas of Independency. And Dr. Parker is a true and worthy successor to this great Apostolic Puritan."" Among his biographers, Margaret Bywater called him ""the most outstanding preacher of his time,"" and Angus Watson wrote that ""no one had ever spoken like him."" Another writer and pastor, Ian Maclaren, offered the following tribute: ""Dr. Parker occupies a lonely place among the preachers of our day. His position among preachers is the same as that of a poet among"
"Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her ""The 'Iron Lady, a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies known as Thatcherism. A research chemist at Somerville College, Oxford, before becoming a barrister, Thatcher"
"of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He was spotted by Aldrich Ames a Soviet agent who worked for the CIA, but he was successfully exfiltrated from Moscow in 1985. Biographer Ben McIntyre argues he was the West's most valuable human asset, especially for his deep psychological insights into the inner circles of the Kremlin. He convinced Washington and London that the fierceness and bellicosity of the Kremlin was a product of fear, and military weakness, rather than an urge for world conquest. Thatcher and Reagan concluded they could moderate their own anti-Soviet rhetoric, as successfully happened when"
"of unduly influencing his wife in political matters. Given his professional background Thatcher served as an advisor on financial matters, warning Margaret about the poor condition of British Leyland after reviewing its books. He often insisted that she avoid overwork, to little avail, sometimes pleading ""Bed, woman!"" They otherwise usually kept their careers separate; an exception was when Thatcher accompanied his wife on a 1967 visit to the United States sponsored by the International Visitor Leadership Program. Thatcher was consistently strongly against the death penalty, calling it ""absolutely awful"" and ""barbaric"". Like his wife, Thatcher was consistently anti-socialist. He told"
"Allen Adams Allender Steele Adams, known as Allen Adams, (16 February 1946 – 5 September 1990), was a British Labour politician. Adams was born in Glasgow, and married Irene Adams on 24 February 1968. He was elected as Strathclyde Regional Councillor for Paisley Craigielea in 1974, a position he held until standing down due to his election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley in 1979. He stood successfully for reelection to Paisley North in 1983 following boundary changes. He had served as Labour's Scottish whip whilst an MP. On 31 March 1988, he described Margaret Thatcher in the House"
"racial superiority or xenophobia"". After Powell's death many Conservative politicians paid tribute to him, including former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who said, ""There will never be anybody else so compelling as Enoch Powell. He was magnetic. Listening to his speeches was an unforgettable privilege. He was one of those rare people who made a difference and whose moral compass led us in the right direction."" Other politicians, including his rivals, also paid tribute to him, including former Labour party leader Tony Blair who said, ""However controversial his views, he was one of the great figures of 20th-century British politics,"
"Designers of America, paid tribute to Alexander as an ""incredible force"" when she won the CFDA's special Eugenia Sheppard Media Award. Designer Michael Kors who presented the award called her ""unsinkable"". In April 2013 Alexander marked the death of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher with an analysis for ""The Daily Telegraph"" of her status as ""a global style icon"", explaining how her image was ""beyond the dictates of any designer, let alone the catwalk"". It also detailed the origins of the verb to handbag somebody, a reference to Thatcher's accessory as a symbol of her style of government. Alexander was"
"fearsome to behold. Heaven preserve us from political axe-men in a state of panic. They would cut off their grandmas in their prime if they thought it would serve their interests. And so they cut off a grandma in her international prime by the stocking tops, to borrow one of Denis's phrases, which Mrs Thatcher often used."" In a commentary in the ""Daily Express"" in April 2009, Ingham referred to Thatcher as ""reckless"" and a battler for Britain. He said her greatest quality was that she did not want to be loved and she came to office without a Press"
"the United Nations, described Thatcher as ""a great model as the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who not only demonstrated her leadership but has given such great hope for many women for equality, gender equality in Parliament"". The message from Pope Francis ""recalls with appreciation the Christian values which underpinned her commitment to public service and to the promotion of freedom among the family of nations"". Barack Obama, President of the United States, lamented the loss of ""a true friend"". His statement praised her as ""an unapologetic supporter of our transatlantic alliance, she knew that with strength"
"until 1992. During the subsequent Party leadership contest he was urged by Airey Neave to vote for Margaret Thatcher but he is thought to have favoured Willie Whitelaw. The following year came the free vote on the Common Market and Clark, praising Enoch Powell's speech, voted against. The next day he told the socialist MP Dennis Skinner that ""I'd rather live in a socialist Britain than one ruled by a lot of foreigners."" Although he was personally liked by Margaret Thatcher, for whom he had great admiration, and the columnist George Hutchinson, writing in ""The Times"" tipped him for inclusion"
"led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as ""the Macaulay of our age"". Despite Taylor's increasing ambivalence toward appeasement from the late 1950s, which became explicitly evident in his 1961 book ""Origins of the Second World War"", Winston Churchill remained another of his heroes. In ""English History 1914-1945"" (1965) Taylor famously concluded his biographical footnote of Churchill with the phrase ""the savior of his country."" Another person Taylor admired was the historian E. H. Carr, who was his favourite historian and a good friend. Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) was a leading essayist and commentator. He thrived on polemics and debates,"
"1957 and after five years in the House of Lords returned to the Court of Appeal as Master of the Rolls in 1962, a position he held for twenty years. In retirement he wrote several books and continued to offer opinions on the state of the common law through his writing and his position in the House of Lords. Margaret Thatcher said that Denning was “probably the greatest English judge of modern times”. Mark Garnett and Richard Weight argue that he was a conservative Christian who ""remained popular with morally conservative Britons who were dismayed at the postwar rise in"
"for the Conservatives in total between 1979 and 1987. Her final election win was hailed as a ""historic hat trick"" by ""The Independent"" and similarly by other newspapers. Thatcher ranked highest among living persons in the 2002 BBC poll ""100 Greatest Britons"". In 1999, ""Time"" deemed Thatcher one of the . In 2015 she topped a poll by ""Scottish Widows"", a major financial services company, as the most influential woman of the past 200 years; and in 2016 topped BBC Radio 4's ""Woman's Hour Power List"" of women judged to have had the biggest impact on female lives over the"
"I would regard as a privilege."" He describes US President Obama as having a ""generous nature"", former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev as ""impressive"", and British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as ""looking down her nose at you"". In 1988, Thatcher terminated an interview with O'Brien and, by O'Brien's account: ""She hissed, 'You just had to go too far.'"" Former conservative Liberal Prime Minister John Howard wrote in his autobiography """" that, ""the politics of Kerry O'Brien, presenter of the ABC's ""7.30 Report"" were a mile away from mine. Yet I appeared regularly on his program, because it was a serious"
"a result, the presidency). Sackville-West was sacked as British ambassador. A California Republican named George Osgoodby wrote a letter to Sir Lionel Sackville-West, the British ambassador to the U. S., under the assumed name of ""Charles F. Murchison"". ""Murchison"" described himself as a former Englishman who was now a California citizen and asked how he should vote in the upcoming presidential election. Sir Lionel wrote back and indiscreetly suggested that Grover Cleveland, the Democratic incumbent, was probably the best man from the British point of view. The Republicans published this letter just two weeks before the election, where it had"
"Henry Leach Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Conyers Leach, (18 November 1923 – 26 April 2011) was a Royal Navy officer who, as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff during the early 1980s, was instrumental in convincing British prime minister Margaret Thatcher that retaking the Falkland Islands from Argentina was feasible. On account of the determination he showed in the matter, journalist and political commentator Andrew Marr described him as Thatcher's ""knight in shining gold braid"". Born the third son of naval officer John Leach and Evelyn Burrell Leach (née Lee), Leach was educated at St"
"in England until 1963. The Soviet spy agency, the KGB, was suspected of the murder of Georgi Markov in London in 1978. A High ranking KGB official, Oleg Gordievsky, defected to London in 1985. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher pursued a strong anti-communist policy in concert with Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, in contrast with the détente policy of the 1970s. Relations improved considerably after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 and launched perestroika. They remained relatively warm after the collapse of the USSR in 1991 — with Russia taking over the international obligations and"
"progressed, she preferred to be known only as ""Mrs Thatcher"". According to John Campbell, a biographer of his wife, ""their marriage was more a partnership of mutual convenience than a romance"", quoting their daughter in her biography of Thatcher: Thatcher was already a wealthy man when he met Margaret and financed her training as a barrister, and a home in Chelsea; he also bought a large house in Lamberhurst, Kent, in 1965. His firm employed 200 people by 1957. Thatcher became managing director of Atlas in 1947 and chairman in 1951, and led its overseas expansion. By the early 1960s"
"of Britain's MI6, providing a stream of high-grade intelligence that had an important influence on the thinking of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He was spotted by Aldrich Ames a Soviet agent who worked for the CIA, but he was successfully exfiltrated from Moscow in 1985. Biographer Ben McIntyre argues he was the West's most valuable human asset, especially for his deep psychological insights into the inner circles of the Kremlin. He convinced Washington and London that the fierceness and bellicosity of the Kremlin was a product of fear, and military weakness, rather than an urge for"
"appeasement from the late 1950s, which became explicitly evident in his 1961 book ""Origins of the Second World War"", Winston Churchill remained another of his heroes. In ""English History 1914–1945"" (1965) he famously concluded his biographical footnote of Churchill with the phrase ""the saviour of his country."" Another person Taylor admired was the historian E. H. Carr, who was his favourite historian and a good friend. His narratives used irony and humour to entertain as well as inform. He examined history from odd angles, exposing what he considered to be the pomposities of various historical characters. He was famed for"
"prime ministers were ranked in the top 100. Winston Churchill was voted greatest Briton, the Duke of Wellington was in 15th place (though not featured in contemporary polls as he was a 19th-century politician), Margaret Thatcher was in 16th place, Tony Blair was 67th and David Lloyd George was 79th. The BBC television programme ""The Daily Politics"" asked viewers in 2007 to select their favourite Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher topped the list with 49% of the vote, with Clement Attlee coming second with 32%. Historical rankings of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom ""The Times"" constructed a poll for the"
"himself and his old friend Enoch Powell. He was, however, regarded by most as an imperialist. In 1963, Amery took charge of Quintin Hogg's campaign for leadership of the Conservative Party. In early 1975, he took part in a House of Commons debate on the Trades Unions Congress's invitation to Alexander Shelepin, the former Soviet KGB Chief, to visit Britain. He stated that ""more and more people are beginning to look upon the TUC as a Communist-penetrated show and this invitation must strengthen that view."" According to Margaret Thatcher's 1995 memoir, ""The Path to Power"", when Harold Wilson's Labour government"
"camp and his journalism for the ""Morning Post"", successfully stood as a Conservative candidate in Oldham, where Chamberlain spoke on his behalf. Churchill recalled that I watched my honoured guest with close attention. He loved the roar of the multitude, and with my father could always say ""I have never feared the English democracy."" The blood mantled in his cheek, and his eye as it caught mine twinkled with pure enjoyment. Churchill later wrote that 'Mr. Chamberlain was incomparably the most live, sparkling, insurgent, compulsive figure in British affairs ... 'Joe' was the one who made the weather. He was"
"Scarfe – The Thatcher Drawings"". On Fulham Road in Chelsea, London, there is a 1980s-themed late-night bar dedicated to Thatcher called Maggie's Club. Cultural depictions of Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Her portrayal in the arts and popular culture has been mixed. In the words of one critic she attracted ""musical opprobrium like no other British political leader"". Such opinion is divergent from mainstream opinion polling which tends to place her as the most popular British prime minister since Winston Churchill. Arts critic Michael Billington noted that ""Thatcher may not"
"of our dominions than such a worthy councillor."" G. K. Chesterton, a Roman Catholic convert from the Church of England, predicted More ""may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or at least the greatest historical character in English history."" Hugh Trevor-Roper called More ""the first great Englishman whom we feel that we know, the most saintly of humanists, the most human of saints, the universal man of our cool northern renaissance."" Jonathan Swift, an Anglican, wrote that More was ""a person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced"". Some consider Samuel Johnson that quote's author, although neither his"
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