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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a woman of formidable will in the face of doubt. Her political philosophy took the moniker "Thatcherism." Her impact on Britain was sweeping and lasting, leaving a market economy and a more right-wing Conservative party. In 1990 she was awarded the Order of Merit and in 1994 she was made a baroness.
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In 1992, Margaret Thatcher was raised to the House of Lords by the conferment of a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, upon her. She did not take a hereditary title, as she had recommended for Harold Macmillan, later Earl of Stockton, on his ninetieth birthday in 1984. She has explained that she thought she hadn't sufficient means to 'support' an hereditary title. By virtue of the life barony, she entered the House of Lords. She made a series of speeches in the Lords criticising the Maastricht Treaty, describing it as "a treaty too far" and in June 1993 told the Lords: "I could never have signed this treaty".[10] She ... advocated a referendum on the treaty, citing A. V. Dicey, since all three main parties were in favour of it and that therefore the people should have their say.[11]
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born Margaret Hilda Roberts October 13, 1925) was the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Leader of the Conservative Party, she is often remembered by her nickname, "the Iron Lady" and "Mad Maggie". She ... directed British troops in 1983 to recapture the Falkland Islands from Argentina, which had captured them for a short time, in the Falkland War. Also, she had the second longest single term in history. She also married Sir Dennis Thatcher.
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born October 13, 1925), is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. She was leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990. She is the only woman to have held the office of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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After leaving the House of Commons, Thatcher was created Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven and entered the House of Lords, an entirely normal and expected honor for a British ex-Prime Minister. More controversially, Denis Thatcher was given a Baronetcy, which ensured that their son, Mark, would inherit the title of "Sir Mark".
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Yesterday a meeting took place in London between Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s Leader of the Opposition, and the Rt Hon. Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Mrs Tymoshenko took time out of her busy election campaign schedule to hold private discussions with the "Iron Lady," who was Britain’s Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 and credited with transforming the country and helping to end the Cold War.
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