Thatcher becomes PM
May 4, 1979
Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter from Grantham, walked into 10 Downing Street as Britain's first woman prime minister, quoting Saint Francis about harmony. Within months she was at war with her own cabinet, the unions, inflation, and the postwar consensus. She would remake Britain and, with Reagan, much of the world.
In context
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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