The British press also changed its coverage at the end of 1988, following a speech by Margaret Thatcher to the Royal Society advocating action against human-induced climate change.

Baroness Thatcher was also invited but declined to attend due to ill health.

In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

However, the election of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher at the general election in May 1979, at the expense of Labour's James Callaghan, saw substantial trade union reform which saw the level of strikes fall, but also the level of trade union membership fall.

In the rest of Europe, in the wake of the neo-liberal turn in politics ushered in by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan, union membership has also been declining.

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.

He also clashed with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher on several occasions, disliking her policy towards South Africa.

Thatcher also clarified that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it, telling Gorbachev " We do not want a united Germany ".

* The character of Whitelaw also appeared in a smaller role in Margaret, where he was portrayed as a moderating influence on Thatcher and Heseltine in Cabinet.

It has also been used by some to describe the beliefs of the British government while Thatcher was Prime Minister between May 1979 and November 1990, and beyond into the governments of John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.

Credited as " punk on bus ", Thatcher also wrote and recorded " I Hate You ", the song in the scene, and it was his idea to have the punk — rendered unconscious by the pinch — hit the stereo and turn it off with his face.

Norman Tebbit, former MP for Chingford and close ally of Margaret Thatcher, was also born in Southgate.

Thatcher may also refer to:

Margaret Thatcher was also noted as being " presidential ", in the capacity that she " forced " her own viewpoints onto her Cabinet.

Benazir also promoted and strengthened relations with the United Kingdom, and met with her British counterpart Margaret Thatcher where a financial assistance and trade agreement was signed by both prime ministers.

It was also seen as a major political victory for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party.

Although most famous for providing the voice of Margaret Thatcher on the show, he also voiced other characters, including Roy Hattersley and The Queen Mother who was Nallon's personal favourite character.

Penny Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at The Vortex, Hackney, 30 November 2006 He also wrote Rocky Eyed, an extended poem attacking then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her government following the 1982 Falklands War which was recorded as the Crass album Yes Sir, I Will, The Death of Imagination ( a ' musical drama in 4 parts '), The Diamond Signature ( published by AK Press ) and Oh America, a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks and America's subsequent War on Terror which includes the line Give us justice which is not the searing spite of revenge, peace which is not the product of war nor dependent upon it.

When some participants showed disagreement, she added immediately that this was not meant to liken Bush to Hitler as a person, but rather to compare their methods, and that British prime minister Margaret Thatcher had also used the 1982 Falklands War to improve election prospects.

Mahathir also actively pursued privatisation of government enterprises from the early 1980s, both for the liberal economic reasons it was being pursued by contemporaries such as Margaret Thatcher, and because he felt that combined with affirmative action for the bumiputera it could provide economic opportunities for bumiputera businesses.

The group included Þorsteinn Pálsson, Geir H. Haarde, Jón Steinar Gunnlaugsson, Kjartan Gunnarsson, Magnús Gunnarsson, Brynjólfur Bjarnason and Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, and they published the magazine Eimreiðin from 1972 to 1975 ; in the following years they followed with interest what was happening in the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher and in the United States under Ronald Reagan ; they also read books and articles by and about Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and James M. Buchanan, who all visited Iceland in the early 1980s and whose messages of limited governments, privatisation, and liberalisation of the economy had a wide impact.

Aitken wrote a highly confidential letter to Thatcher in early 1980, dealing with allegations that the former Director-General of MI5, Sir Roger Hollis, had been a double agent also working for the Soviet Union.

Parkinson also published his memoirs in 1992, in which he claimed that, with a determined campaign, Thatcher would have won the second ballot of the Conservative Leadership election in 1990 – which her Cabinet had warned her she would lose and persuaded her to stand down.

Blair also abolished Section 28, and he created lot more pro-European initiatives compared to Thatcher.

A Thatcher aide, in the 1994 PBS video, " The Windsors: A Royal Family ," claimed that she privately used to say that CHOGM stood for Compulsory Handouts to Greedy Mendicants.

Thatcher herself claimed philosophical inspiration from the works of Burke and Friedrich Hayek for her defence of liberal economics.

Thatcher had claimed nuclear weapons were our defence " of last resort ".

It has been claimed that Margaret Thatcher threatened nuclear retaliation against Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War.

William Thatcher, the lead character in the 2001 film A Knight's Tale played by Heath Ledger claimed to be Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein from Gelderland so as to appear to be of noble birth and thus qualify to participate in jousting.

Milton Friedman claimed that " the thing that people do not recognise is that Margaret Thatcher is not in terms of belief a Tory.

During the trip Lynch claimed in an interview with the Washington Post that a five-kilometer air corridor between the border was agreed upon during the meeting with Thatcher to enhance security co-operation This was something highly unsavoury to many in Fianna Fáil.

In addition during the trip Lynch claimed in an interview with the Washington Post that a five-kilometre air corridor between the border was agreed upon during the meeting with Thatcher to enhance security co-operation This was something highly unsavoury to many in Fianna Fáil.

He has admiration for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and believes she was betrayed by her own party when she was forced out of Downing Street, and in 1997 claimed that the Referendum Party had " more integrity than the whole of the other political parties put together.

'" When asked which individual he most despised, Hoskins named Tony Blair and claimed that " he's done even more damage than Thatcher ".

On 19 July 1984, Thatcher said in the House of Commons that giving in to the miners would be surrendering the rule of parliamentary democracy to the rule of the mob ; she referred to the striking miners as " the enemy within " and claimed they did not share the values of other British people.

Soviet miners who sent money to the NUM would not have been able to obtain convertible currency without the support of the Government of the Soviet Union and Thatcher claimed to have seen documentary evidence that suggests that Soviet-leader Mikhail Gorbachev authorised these payments.

Despite this, it has been claimed that the market orientation of the Thatcher government prejudiced it against Whitehouse in private.

Heseltine was angry and claimed a meeting on Westland had been cancelled but Thatcher argued that no such meeting had ever been scheduled.

His death shocked the Saskatchewan public and his daughter-in-law JoAnn Thatcher later claimed she suspected the death was a suicide.

It protests against what it claimed was the obedience of the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher to United States interests.

The group claimed to have a " country-wide network of Conservative office-holders and activists " and claimed credit for canvassing for Margaret Thatcher in her constituency for the 1979 General Election.

In 1984 appeared his book The Two Cities in which he claimed that Thatcher could see " everything in black and white the universe I inhabit is made up of many shades of grey ".

In Equatorial Guinea in June 2008, Simon Mann claimed during his trial testimony that Thatcher, then resident in Spain, " was not just an investor, he came completely on board and became a part of the management team " of the coup plot.

Among the advance guard was Nick du Toit who claimed that he had been introduced to Thatcher by Mann.

The Liberals, led by Ross Thatcher of Moose Jaw, claimed that Pederson's promise of land payments was tantamount to bribery.

California Pacific now claimed rights over the Teva name and patent, stating that Thatcher was merely an employee of their company.