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Margaret Thatcher: Labour Party
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In December 1951, after a two-year courtship, she married Denis Thatcher, a moderately successful owner of a paint and chemical company. The marriage allowed her to devote herself full-time to politics. When her twin children, Mark and Carol, were born in 1953, she was able to hire a nanny and still continue her political activities. In these... she was unsuccessful until 1959, when she entered Parliament at thirty-two, representing Finchley, North London, at the high watermark of postwar Conservatism under Harold Macmillan. Her first parliamentary position was junior minister for pensions, which she held until the Labour victory in the 1964 general elections. She was considered an extremely diligent and capable, if not brilliant, parliamentarian, although at this early stage she had little chance to prove herself.
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In the Conservative leadership election in the aftermath of the Conservatives' landslide defeat at the hands of New Labour, Thatcher voiced her support for William Hague after Kenneth Clarke entered into an alliance with John Redwood. Thatcher reportedly then toured the tea room of the House of Commons, urging Conservative MPs to vote for Hague.
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It was said that Denis was in 'the Thatcher party not the Tory party'. He once famously remarked, recalling the words of Mark Twain, that: "it's better to keep my mouth shut and be thought a fool rather than open it and remove all doubt."
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