Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, has a lot of aura that sets her apart from all the British prime ministers, and is undoubtedly one of the few impressive British prime ministers.
Unlike Prime Ministers such as Churchill and Chamberlain, who had a strong personal style and left legends and amazing stories on the stage of the world war, Thatcher was known among the British for his lean style and fierce attitude.
As the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom, she lacked some of the authoritarian image of the traditional male prime minister, but became a model for practical women in the new era, in the post-Cold War period, she has implemented a series of political and economic measures several times, effectively controlled the rise in unemployment in the United Kingdom, and played an important role in helping the British economy out of the depression.
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She is also seen internationally: confronting the Soviet camp, being called the "Iron Lady" by a Soviet journalist, launching the Falklands War, negotiating with Deng Xiaoping on Hong Kong... As a politician, her life is undoubtedly legendary.
In recognition of her outstanding contributions during her tenure, she was awarded the Order of the Garter, which represents the highest honour of The United Kingdom – a medal awarded to very few people, entitled only members of the royal family such as kings and princes, no more than 24 living persons to receive the medal, and only a very small number of people other than foreign kings and royals.
The Queen's Sacred Heart was so assertive that she listed Thatcher as a member of the Knights of the Order of the Gard...
Throughout Thatcher's life, there is no doubt that the ups and downs and honors are equal, but it is such a strong woman who cannot take care of her family because she has entered the political world.
During his death and burial, several small demonstrations broke out in Britain, and some people took to the streets to celebrate with signs and other props emblazoned with slogans such as "The Bitch Is Dead"...
This scene is lamentable, and Margaret Thatcher spent such a miserable old age at the last moment, making people regret the true meaning of life!
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Thatcher was born in a small town in Lincolnshire, on the banks of the Wetham River, 39 kilometres southwest of Lincoln, with a permanent population of only 34,592 people and acquaintances.
Her father, Alfred Roberts, ran a grocery store in the local town, allowing her to meet different people from an early age. His father was an avid local politician, having served as a member of local councils and even as mayor of Grantham from 1945 to 1946, and was an "old-school liberal".
Influenced by their father, the Roberts family traditionally voted for the Liberal Party in favor of liberalism.
But then my father decided that the Liberal Party was now under the influence of collectivism, so he turned to the Conservative Party, which he believed was more representative of the liberal tradition, and assisted the Conservative candidate Victor Warrend in the 1935 general election to win the seat.
This had a detrimental effect on his father's political career – in May 1952, after Grantham's local council was first seized control by the Labour Party, he lost his position as counsellor to the local council and withdrew from politics. However, Thatcher was nurtured since childhood, and these past events planted a seed of politics in her heart.
Margaret Thatcher, who had always excelled academically, was a laude student at the College, graduating from Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School in 1944 and was admitted to Somerville College, Oxford, majoring in chemistry.
The college was purely women's until 1992, founded in 1878 by members of the Women's Higher Education Society, named after the then-deceased Scottish mathematician Mary Somerville.
Thatcher spent her university career in it, studying X-ray crystallography in the final year – nothing to do with politics, the only thing that had to do with it was in 1946, when she became president of the Conservative Association of Oxford University.
Later, Margaret Thatcher graduated with second class honours, worked as a pharmacist in the development of celluloid in the United Kingdom, and participated in the research and preservation of ice cream at J. Lyon, and as a popular technical worker, she was a senior salary with an annual salary of five hundred pounds, which made her mark in this field.
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Fast forward to 1950, and Thatcher finally began her political career.
In the 1950 and 1951 elections, Margaret Thatcher became the youngest Conservative female candidate at the time in the Dartford constituency, which had always been occupied by the Labour Party. Her active involvement in the Conservative Party in Kent led her to meet Dennis Thatcher, who had recently divorced, and the two fell in love.
Her boyfriend, a wealthy businessman, sponsored her to study law at City College London and enrol in the Bar, where she qualified as a solicitor in 1953 and specialized in tax law. In the same year, the two gave birth to twin siblings, Carol Thatcher and Mark Thatcher.
However, the birth of the two children did not arouse the determination of the two to settle down, and according to Thatcher's recollection, Dennis Thatcher's first reaction when he saw their children was: "Oh my God, they look like rabbits, put them back" - they were not welcomed by their fathers at birth, and it seemed that the two children came into this world was not a blessing.
A year later, Margaret Thatcher returned to politics, this time she was more mature and more stable, in order to seek a stable seat in the Lower House conservative party, Thatcher first declined to vote for the O'Pinchon constituency in 1954, and later refused several other invitations, until April 1958, when she decided to elect The Finchley constituency, and won in 1959, officially becoming a member of the British House of Commons.
In her first speech in the House of Commons, Margaret Thatcher unusually chose to promote her private draft (the average newly elected mp would choose a government-provided bill), to the amazement of everyone in the room – a rising star of politics that is breaking away from tradition is rising.
This was followed by a complex and sinister deception: in September 1961, Margaret Thatcher was appointed parliamentary secretary for the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance until the Conservatives lost the 1964 general election.
In 1966, during parliamentary debates, Margaret Thatcher lashed out at Labour's new tax system, arguing that it was inconsistent with Western ideology and tilted in the opposite direction of capitalism, thus establishing her reputation as a strong parliamentary debater.
In 1970, Thatcher finally entered the Cabinet as Minister of Education and Science, and in her first month in office alone, she decided to abolish the policy of providing free milk to schools across the country in order to cut spending on education. As a result, all kindergarten and elementary school students no longer receive free milk.
This move triggered a series of public demonstrations, and the Sun newspaper even jokingly called Thatcher a "milk snatcher", when government intervention was prevalent in Britain, liberal policies had not become mainstream, and her cold approach was puzzling, subjected to many criticisms, and undoubtedly cut off some of the poor children who benefited from this policy.
By this time, her children had almost grown up, and Carol was preparing to enter the University of London, and to her mother, Carol had this to say:
"For my mother, before the word was known to me, in all my childhood memories, my mother was a superwoman. She was always calm, she never relaxed, and the chores were done at a very fast pace in order to return to the parliament letters or continue to make up speeches. A superwoman, that's what her daughter said.
As for Marc Thatcher, after leaving Harrow In 1971, instead of continuing his higher education, he chose the path of doing business: he continued to study accounting after passing the 3O level exam, but ultimately failed to pass the accounting exam.
When Thatcher came to power as Prime Minister in 1979, she had high hopes of reversing Britain's recession and reducing government intervention in the economy. In addition, she is convinced that her mission includes rebuilding Britain's former British Empire and strengthening its influence on international affairs.
To that end, she forged a philosophical and spiritual alliance with Ronald Reagan, newly elected president of the United States in 1980, to gain U.S. support. In foreign policy, conservatism became the dominant political philosophy among the Anglo-Saxon states.
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As soon as she took office, Margaret Thatcher raised interest rates sharply to reduce the money supply, thereby controlling soaring inflation figures. Despite a joint letter from 364 economists calling for a change in economic policy, Margaret Thatcher went her own way.
In the face of the sluggish economic situation, political commentators recalled the Heath government's "180-degree turn" and speculated that Thatcher would do it, but Thatcher gave a firm and tough reply at the 1980 Conservative Party congress: "If you want to turn, it will be up to you, but I will never turn, ma'am." ”
By January 1982, inflation had fallen from a high of 18 per cent to a single-digit 8.6 per cent, and interest rates had fallen with it, and Margaret Thatcher's economic policy had been effective.
However, unemployment continues to deteriorate, according to official statistics, the number of unemployed in the country reached 3.6 million, and many unofficial statistics based on other unemployment definitions pointed out that the number of unemployed people was as high as 5 million, and Thatcher's approval rating also fell to a low of 32%. But in any case, Thatcher achieved her goal.
In 1982, in the course of the Falkland War, because the British warship was sunk by the Albanian army to launch the French Flying Fish anti-ship missile, which caused Thatcher to be extremely displeased, she called the then French President Mitterrand to question the crime and coerced the French side to hand over the parameters of the Flying Fish missile;
At first, Mitterrand was tight-lipped, but Thatcher finally told Mitterrand that she would use nuclear weapons to attack Argentina for the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, forcing Mitterrand to comply.
Britain won this near-victorious war, the victory in the Falkland Islands became the so-called "Falkland factor", and the British economy was also rebounding from the bottom at this time, and Thatcher's support rate remained high for a while, which undoubtedly gave her proud capital.
However, that pride gave her a stumbling block over Hong Kong. In 1982, in talks with Deng Xiaoping, she was repeatedly frustrated, failed to reach an effective agreement, and was forced by the situation to make concessions. The "Iron Lady" was defeated in front of Deng Xiaoping and accidentally fell down when she walked out of the Great Hall of the People, and the British media hyped up this, and the "Iron Lady" was not invincible.
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In 1990, Margaret Thatcher's new local tax system (the poll tax) had left her unpopular, and her mishandling of economic issues (such as raising interest rates to 15 per cent) had deprived her of core support from the middle class, business and business. The crisis of her ouster erupted prematurely with the resignation of Foreign Secretary Jeffrey Howe on November 1, 1990.
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The closest reason for Jeffrey Howe's resignation was Margaret Thatcher's belligerent debate in the House of Commons debate on 30 October, while making accusations against the President of the European Commission Jacques Delore, in a heated tone that led Jeffrey Howe to more openly encourage "other Conservative party members to reconsider the support of the Prime Minister".
This led directly to the announcement by hesserting, the former Minister of Defence, who had withdrawn from the cabinet in 1986 due to political disagreements, to challenge Margaret Thatcher's position as party leader and prime minister, and then hold the party leader election.
After consulting the Cabinet, Thatcher understood that the trend was over, and finally announced his withdrawal from the election and stepped down as Prime Minister.
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Looking back on her political career, she has been involved in countless major historical events, but for the family, Margaret Thatcher has not fulfilled her responsibilities .
His son, Mark Thatcher, was known for causing trouble for his mother, and was suspected of taking advantage of her fame in business, leaving England in 1986 and has lived in the United States, Switzerland, Monaco, South Africa, Gibraltar, Barbados, Guernsey, and Spain ever since.
The Sunday Times in 2004 estimated his wealth at £60 million, much of which they believed was held in offshore accounts to evade scrutiny. Later, Mark was arrested for supporting the coup d'état in Equatorial Guinea, and his mother, who suffered a stroke in her later years, personally dispatched... Arguably, Mark never brought good public opinion to his mother.
But the daughter did not benefit much from her mother, and after returning from Australia, Carroll developed in the British journalism industry, where she was a commentator for BBC Radio Four and a writer for the famous Daily Telegraph.
But because her mother, Margaret Thatcher, was on the main street in England, many British media newspapers refused to publish a press release by Carol Thatcher, given her mother's enormous influence. Carroll was embarrassed, but she persisted in being a good journalist, and her mother was proud of her, even though she did not help her career much.
In 2003, When Margaret Thatcher had suffered a severe stroke and her husband's death was a major blow, Carroll told the media that Margaret Thatcher's short-term memory was in a severe decline: "Because of the decline in memory, she rarely reads now, because it is completely meaningless, and she has forgotten the beginning of a sentence before reading it." ”
On April 8, 2013, at 11:28 UK time, Margaret Thatcher died of illness while reading in her hotel suite, ending a bleak old age.
old age.