"To be powerful - how to be a real lady": 40 years from the day Margaret Thatcher took the post of Prime Minister of Britain
2019-05-04T12:52:22.402Z
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On May 4, 1979, Margaret Thatcher, Chairman of the Conservative Party, became the first woman to take the post of British Prime Minister. Thatcher was able to reduce inflation and the maximum level of taxes, as well as to reduce government control over the economy and privatize a number of large companies. Her conservative political course was called thatcherism, and the prime minister herself won the reputation of being an “iron lady” for her harsh foreign policy rhetoric, primarily regarding the USSR She advocated the deployment of NATO nuclear missiles in Europe and fought against the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. Being a chemist by training, Thatcher called for the use of chemical weapons against Iraq. Her tenure as head of government was the longest in the political history of Great Britain since the times of the Marquis Robert Salisbury.
Source: russiart