Margaret Thatcher
She was elected to
Parliament in 1959 as Member of Parliament for Finchley, which was a constituency represented in
the House of Commons. In 1961 Thatcher became the Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of
Pensions and National Insurance. She also got the job of Conservative spokeswoman on housing and
land. Thatcher was one of few Conservative Members of Parliament to support decriminalising male
homosexuality, and she voted in favour of legalising abortion.
When the Conservative party under Edward Heath won the 1970 general election, Thatcher became
an Education Minister. During her first months of work she was forced to make a cut in the
education budget and therefore she abolished universal free milk for school-children. This caused a
huge protest that gave her the name of "Thatcher Thatcher, Milk Snatcher". However, she also
successfully stood against the introduction of library book charges. Within her term she also
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