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Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented economic policies known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as …
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented economic policies known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist before becoming a barrister. She was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her secretary of state for education and science in his 1970–1974 government. In 1975, she defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become leader of the opposition, the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK. On becoming prime minister after winning the 1979 general election, Thatcher introduced a series of economic policies intended to reverse high inflation and Britain's struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an oncoming recession. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised greater individual liberty, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Her popularity in her first years in office waned amid recession and rising unemployment. Victory in the 1982 Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her landslide re-election in 1983. She survived an assassination attempt by the Provisional IRA in the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing and achieved a political victory against the National Union of Mineworkers in the 1984–85 miners' strike. In 1986, Thatcher oversaw the deregulation of UK financial markets, leading to an economic boom, in what came to be known as the Big Bang. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term with another landslide in 1987, but her subsequent support for the Community Charge (also known as the "poll tax") was widely unpopular, and her increasingly Eurosceptic views on the European Community were not shared by others in her cabinet. She resigned as prime minister and party leader in 1990, after a challenge was launched to her leadership, and was succeeded by John Major, her chancellor of the Exchequer. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. In 2013, she died of a stroke at the Ritz Hotel, London, at the age of 87. A polarising figure in British politics, Thatcher is nonetheless viewed favourably in historical rankings and public opinion of British prime ministers. Her tenure constituted a realignment towards neoliberal policies in Britain; the complex legacy attributed to this shift continues to be debated into the 21st century.
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Kenny Dalglish
as Self (archive footage) - Former British PM
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire
as Self (archive footage)
Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface
as Self (archive footage)
Strike: An Uncivil War
as Self (archive footage)
A Very British Sex Scandal: The Love Child & the Secretary
as Self (archive footage)
In the Grip of Gazprom
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major
as Self (archive footage)
The Real Spies Among Friends
as Self (archive footage)
Nazi Hunters: The Real Walk-In
as Self (archive Footage)
Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
as Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher: Serving the Crown
as Self
Thatcher's Not Dead
as Self (archive footage)
Prelúdio
as Self (archive footage)
McEnroe
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ice Under His Feet
as Self (archive footage)
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
as Self (archive footage)
Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
as Self (archive footage)
Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain
as Self (archive footage)
Influence
as Self (archive footage)
1979: Big Bang of the Present
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Laboratory Greece
as Self (archive footage)
England 79
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
as Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
as Self (archive footage)
Meeting Gorbachev
as Self (archive Footage)
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Self (archive footage)
I, Dolours
as Self (Archive Footage)
Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation
as Self (archive footage)
The Swap
as Self (voice)
Shadow World
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
How to Win the US Presidency
as Self (archive footage)
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
as Self (archive footage)
Hillsborough
as Self (archive Footage)
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Self (archive footage)
Laissez-faire
as Self (archive footage)
Soul Boys of the Western World
Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary
as Self
Maggie and Me
as Self (Archive Footage)
No Poster
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister
as Self
Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain
as Self
Palme
as Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
as Herself
Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
The Lady is Not for Turning: An Unauthorized Story on Margaret Thatcher
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
as Self (archive footage)
How to Win the TV Debate
as Self (archive footage)
The Shock Doctrine
as Self (archive footage)
Portillo on Thatcher
as Self (Archive Footage)
The New Ten Commandments
as Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher, l'enfance d'un chef
as Self
How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
as Self
Best Ever Spitting Image
as Self (archive footage)
The Dark Side of Porn: The Real Animal Farm
as (archive footage)
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
as Self (archive footage)
In Search of Tony Blair
as Self (Archive Footage)
The Downing Street Patient
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Strike: When Britain Went to War
Cabinet Confidential
as Self
The Pinochet Case
as Self (archive footage)
Blackadder: Back & Forth
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reagan
as Self
Degeneration Punk
How to Be Prime Minister
as Self
Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell
as Self
Satans mördare
as Self
No Poster
Empire of the Censors
as Self
Westminster's Secret Service
as Self (Archive Footage)
The Falklands War: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
as Self
Rockin' Ronnie
as Self (archive footage)
To Kill the Cabinet
as Self (archive footage)
The Red and the Blue
as Self (uncredited)
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self
Rude Boy
as Self