Margaret Thatcher
during the General Elections of May 1979, the Conservatives won a Parliamentary majority of 43.
The next day on the 4th of May 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom. She became a very close ally with President Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980 in the United
States. Margaret was in office for three terms, 1979-1983, 1983-1987 and 1987-1990.
In her first term she tried to enact her ideas about running the economy better, but it did not work out
at once. Due to the Falklands War with Argentina in 1982, she received popularity and when the
General Elections came in June 1983, the government was re-elected with its Parliamentary majority
more than trebled (144 seats). With the wave of patriotism she stayed in power up to 1983 and a
short upturn in the economy returned her to third term in office in 1987.
Throughout all three terms she pursued economic policies that reduced the power of the unions,
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