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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 194. Chapters: Margaret Thatcher, Patrick Hastings, H. H. Asquith, Vera Baird, Jack Straw, William Blackstone, Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, Kenneth Clarke, Rabinder Singh (barrister), William Garrow, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Neil Hamilton (politician), Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet, Ahmad Thomson, Cecil Clothier, F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, David Eady, Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, John Mortimer, Augustine Birrell, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Cherie Blair, Nicholas Fuller (lawyer), Roger Bushell, Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, Hugh Tomlinson, Jonathan Sumption, Edward Garnier, Shami Chakrabarti, Geoffrey Robertson, Alfred St. George Hamersley, Edward Marshall Hall, Edward Fitzgerald (barrister), Nicholas Budgen, Adrian Davies, Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, A. P. Herbert, Paul J. Wright, William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, Henry Sylvester-Williams, Dominic Grieve, John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick, Thomas Henshaw (alchemist), Bulstrode Whitelocke, John Maples, Baron Maples, Joseph Simpson, Arthur Francis Leach, Henry Parker (writer), James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline, Courtenay Mansel, Howard Vincent, Basil Thomson, Basil Montagu, Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, Edward William Cox, Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor, Henry Fielding Dickens, Clive Anderson, John Lawson Walton, Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Dennis Byron, Henry Wace (footballer), David Renton, Baron Renton, Edwin James, James Whitelocke, Michael Havers, Baron Havers, Christmas Humphreys, Amedee Turner, Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, Frank Douglas MacKinnon, Charles Arnold-Baker, Harry Peckham, Charles Pelham Villiers, Henry George Purchase, Keir Starmer, Ivor Stanbrook, Walter Bradford Woodgate, Rosalyn Higgins, Raymond Asquith, William Erle, Samuel Romilly, Ian Kennedy (lawyer), Frederic Bennett, Arthur Wynn, Walter Paton, Salathiel Lovell, John Greenwood Shipman. Excerpt: Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, nee Roberts (born 13 October 1925) is a British politician, the longest-serving (1979-1990) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to have held the post. A Soviet journalist nicknamed her the "Iron Lady," which became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented Conservative policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism. Originally a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975 Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election and became Leader of the Opposition, as well as the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general election. After entering, Thatcher introduced a series of political and economic initiatives to reverse what she perceived to be Britain's precipitous national decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector), flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Thatcher's popularity during her first years in office waned amid recession and high unemployment, until economic recovery and the 1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her re-election in 1983. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term in 1987, but her Community Charge (popularly referred to as "poll tax") was widely unpopular and her views on the European Community were not shared by others in her Cabinet. She resigned as Prime Minister and party...
