House of Cards is a 1990 political thriller television drama serial by the BBC in four parts, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

When Michael Heseltine challenged Margaret Thatcher's leadership of the Conservative Party in November 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd were her proposer and seconder on her nomination papers.

In Britain, also previous to this EU jurisprudence, a series of laws introduced during the 1980s by Margaret Thatcher's government restricted closed and union shops.

Milton Friedman influenced the thinking of Alan Walters and Patrick Minford, two of Margaret Thatcher's main macroeconomic advisers.

See the book Margaret Thatcher's Revolution: How it Happened and What it Meant, edited by Subroto Roy & John Clarke, Continuum 2005.

The Daily Mirror was the only major newspaper to back Foot and Labour at the 1983 general election, urging its readers to vote Labour and " Stop the waste of our nation, for your job your children and your future " in response to the mass unemployment that had resulted from Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher's monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation.

He was known as a left-winger, and gained prominence for his attacks on Margaret Thatcher's handling of the Falklands War in 1982.

In organisational terms, the party leadership continued to battle with the Militant tendency, though by now Militant was in retreat in the party and was simultaneously attracted by the opportunities to grow outside Labour's ranks — opportunities largely created by Margaret Thatcher's hugely unpopular poll tax.

Kinnock was also perceived as scoring in debates over Margaret Thatcher in the Commons — previously an area in which he was seen as weak — and finally Conservative MPs challenged Thatcher's leadership and she resigned on 22 November 1990 to be succeeded by John Major.

bands ' lyrics sought to reflect the harsh realities of living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Margaret Thatcher's party forced her from power after the introduction of the poll tax ; Sir Anthony Eden fell from power following the Suez Crisis ; and Neville Chamberlain resigned in 1940 after the Allies were forced to retreat from Norway, as he believed a government supported by all parties was essential, and the Labour and Liberal parties would not join a government headed by him.

Whitehouse created Enfield's character Stavros a London-based Greek kebab shop owner, and then Loadsamoney an archetypal Essex boy made good in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s ; he also appeared as Enfield's sidekick Lance on Saturday Live.

It was after he polled several hundred votes in Margaret Thatcher's Finchley constituency in 1983 that the deposit paid by candidates was raised from £ 150 to £ 500.

Both Thatcherite and Traditionalist Conservatives rebelled over Europe ( and in particular Maastricht ) during John Major's premiership ; and Traditionalist and One Nation MPs united to inflict Margaret Thatcher's only major defeat in Parliament, over Sunday trading.

* Margaret Thatcher who had been the United Kingdom's Prime Minister since 1979 resigned as Prime Minister on 22 November 1990 after being challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Michael Heseltine because of widespread opposition to the introduction of the controversial Community Charge and the fact that her key allies such as Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe resigned over the deeply sensitive issues of the Maastricht Treaty and Margaret Thatcher's resistance to Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

** Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Poll tax, is introduced in Scotland.

Past chairmen have included Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet Minister Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont and former British Telecom chairman Christopher Bland.

This was followed by a defeat by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party in the ensuing general election.

For example, some economists argue that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's anti-inflation policies using persistently high unemployment led to higher structural unemployment and a higher NAIRU.

The first action to bring the INLA to international notice was its assassination on 30 March 1979 of Airey Neave, one of Margaret Thatcher's closest political supporters.

Stockton is widely supposed to have likened Margaret Thatcher's policy of privatisation to ' selling the family silver '.

* Sir Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's former press secretary, lives in Purley.

* Thatcher Ministry, cabinets of Margaret Thatcher's government

Shortly afterward, he had to spend most of it on saving Duke from being a zombified slave, but had enough left over to buy a British title ( His Lordship the Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade-Brixham ), which caused him to be called to England as a tie-breaker for a vote in the House of Lords over one of Margaret Thatcher's tax bills.

Margaret eventually abandoned her plans, and, in 1960, accepted the proposal of the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was created Earl of Snowdon by Elizabeth II.

Edward and the Guardians continued their negotiations, based on the collective assumption that Margaret would be Queen and Edward of Wales King, but all these plans, and those of King Alexander, were brought to nothing by the death of Margaret in the Orkney Islands on 26 September 1290 while voyaging to Scotland.

Mentioned in the parody " Diary by Isaiah Berlin as told to Craig Brown ", Private Eye no 1239, 9 July 2009, in which Rowse plans a dinner for Princess Margaret at All Souls College.

It reported the plans of the Conservative opposition, led at the time by Margaret Thatcher, and included the steps that any subsequent Conservative government would have to take in order to avoid the fate of the 1970s Heath government, which was widely seen as having been brought down by the miners ' strike of 1974.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had commented on the excess over-manning within the network, and plans were afoot to deregulate ITV.

At the outbreak of World War II, plans were made for King George VI, his wife Queen Elizabeth, and their two daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, to reside in Canada.

* Mary and Paul Hutchins – Barbara's estranged parents who all but disowned her for marrying outside her religion ( Jewish Folk ), and after Barbara sent them a Christmas card, made plans to visit the week Margaret wa

Owen fobs Johann off as he plans to go meet a former student, Margaret.

Margaret was one of Anne's chief ladies-in-waiting, and accompanied her to Calais, France in 1532, where it is presumed Anne and Henry VIII made secret plans to marry in the immediate future.

It is interesting, and worrying, to note that in the 1930s, there were also plans to develop the land from Nelson Park, in St. Margaret ’ s, to Kingsdown.

Peace's future plans include UKDK, about the changing face of UK politics, set around the fall of Harold Wilson and rise of Margaret Thatcher, and titles possibly including The Yorkshire Rippers and Nineteen Forty Seven.

Shortly afterwards, Margaret Robertson announced plans to step down.

In 1931, Thomson got engaged to Margaret Finlay and also started making plans to open a tailor shop in Glasgow.

Margaret had initially planned to go with him but had a change of plans when she found she was pregnant with their second child.

Much to his annoyance, Larry learns that Margaret plans to sell the rights of her ordeal for $ 1. 5 million dollars.

Sanger's ally Upton Sinclair wrote an open letter of support for Sanger and her husband in The Masses and during her absence, a groundswell of support grew in the United States, and Margaret returned to the United States in October 1915.

" My eyes are fully open " ( Margaret, Sir Ruthven, and Despard )

Both ‘ heath ’ & ‘ dune ’ relate to the wide, raised land that the field lies on, as the word dun being, ‘ consistenly used for a low hill with a fairly extensive summit which provided a good settlement-site in open country ( Margaret Gelling ).

Katherine gives birth to a daughter, Margaret, via Caesarean section, but Katherine dies in the process as there is no way to ward off infection once the body has been cut open.

It finally makes her realize that her film career is officially over, and she returns home to the open arms of Jim, and the love and acceptance of her daughter, from who Margaret previously desperately attempted to shield her own stalled career.

The first bridge, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, named after donor Margaret Hunt Hill, was planned to open for traffic in March 2012.

Partly seen as an open support of Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher, he was disciplined by Thames Television, but continued to make political comments.

For instance, the alleged witch Margaret Ley from Liverpool claimed, in 1667, that she had been gifted her familiar spirit from her mother when she died, while the Leicestershire cunning-woman Joan Willimot related, in 1618, that a mysterious figure whom she only referred to as her " master ", " willed her to open her mouth and he would blow into her a fairy which should do her good.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and U. S. President George H. W. Bush put pressure on Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to open up Russia's germ warfare facilities to a team of outside inspectors.

The house and gardens, which were first built in the 16th century, are privately owned by Jane Margaret Rogers but are periodically open to the public.

Margaret took this to be open defiance of Henry's authority.

The film ends with an open finale in which the Cowboy drives Tuck and Lydia's limousine, with Scrimshaw and Margaret, still miniaturized, stowed away in its trunk.

Democratic pickups included open seats in Kentucky and South Dakota, and defeats of Senators Gordon L. Allott of Colorado, J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware, Jack Miller of Iowa, and Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.

He married twice ( to Elizabeth Lovelace and Margaret Staunton ( née West ) but had an open and lengthy relationship with Mary Ward, a woman not his wife, by whom he had three daughters.

In May 1996, days before it was slated to open as the Margaret Mitchell House Museum, arsonists struck again, and the building was again gutted by fire.

The next night, Rudy and his friends make an illegal live broadcast of their commercial in the middle of a football game, but it goes awry when Jeff finds out the car on display is red ( which he believes is bad luck ) and female model Margaret ( Cheryl Rixon ) has her dress stuck on the hood ornament-which rips and exposes her when the hood is popped open.

However, Henry's wife Margaret of Anjou was more assertive, showing open enmity toward Richard.

By 1917, Kaimuki was developed and the convent chapel, dedicated under the title of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque was open to the public for Sunday worship.

The Doctor, Margaret, Rose and Jack regroup to find that the extrapolator was a trap, meant to lock onto the nearest alien power source when used — in this case, the TARDIS — and sending that energy to open the Rift.

While making his escape ( with £ 3 – 4 million worth of stolen treasury bills ) Hooperman shoots Crabbe in the leg, which, although, a relatively minor injury, consolidates Crabbe's desire to retire on his police pension and open his own restaurant in the fictional town of Middleton – Pie in the Sky, technically owned by his wife Margaret, although Henry is the main chef.

The event was an open invitation to all people interested in the past and future of the Lake Margaret scheme.

In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government ended entitlement to free meals for thousands of children, and obliged local authorities to open up provision of school meals to competitive tender.

Left alone, Margaret breaks open all the repressed doubts and yearnings that she has carried for years on end about love (" Fable "), realizing at last that the chance of love somehow outweighs the terrible risks.