Privatization of social services and the education system, inflexibility in front of unions, anti-European positions … The Iron Lady may have been frequently contested during her 11 years in power, from 1979 to 1990, she nonetheless has changed the trajectory of his country. Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, professor of history, tells Jacques Beauchamp that Margaret Thatcher embodied in Europe a figure similar to that which Ronald Reagan embodied in the United States.
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Margaret Thatcher was born on October 13, 1922 in Grantham, England. His father – owner of several grocery stores, pastor and, briefly, mayor – influenced him deeply.
Politics in the blood
Involved in student politics at the University of Oxford, she entered the Parliament of London in 1959. She was Minister of Education from 1970 to 1974, leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, then became the first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain May 4, 1979.
Margaret Thatcher offers a return to simple values: harmony, truth, faith, hope, family, law and order. These values would be the eternal values of triumphant Britain, that is, Victorian Britain.
