Thatcher was described as " a radical in a conservative party ", and her ideology has been seen as confronting " established institutions " and the " accepted beliefs of the elite ", both concepts incompatible with the traditional conception of conservatism as signifying support for the established order and existing social convention.

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.

The practice of creating retired Prime Ministers Knights ( or, in the case of Margaret Thatcher, Ladies ) of the Garter has been fairly prevalent since the middle-19th century.

The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Methodist but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of William Hague.

Under the Constitution of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister's role has evolved, based often on the individual's personal appeal and strength of character, as contrasted between, for example, Winston Churchill as against Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher as against John Major.

Thatcher had relit the flame of independence and " what has happened once can happen again ... sooner or later those who aspire to govern ... will have to listen ".

Godwin has been portrayed by Torin Thatcher in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ) and by Bill Wallis in an episode of the British educational TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

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

Some allegations suggested that the former Prime Minister's son Mark Thatcher may have been involved, however he has strongly denied receiving payments or exploiting his mother's connections in his business dealings.

In 14th century Europe, squires William Thatcher ( Heath Ledger ), Roland ( Mark Addy ) and Wat ( Alan Tudyk ), discover their master, Sir Ector ( Nick Brimble ), has died with one final pass to complete to win a jousting tournament.

Since 1965 only one new baronetcy has been created, that ( on 7 Dec 1990 ), for the husband of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ( now Baroness Thatcher ), Sir Denis Thatcher.

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.

Among others, Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, has credited the Reagan Doctrine with aiding the end of the Cold War.

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.

Since then it has been endowed with papers from other political figures including former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, as well as former Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock, alongside those of eminent scientists and engineers, including Reginald Victor Jones, Rosalind Franklin and Sir Frank Whittle.

In recent governments, generally from Margaret Thatcher, and especially in that of Tony Blair, it has been reported that many or even all major decisions have been made before cabinet meetings.

Although his beloved Conservative Party has returned to power, Alf is not happy with Margaret Thatcher being Prime Minister because, according to him, " a woman's place is in the home ".

They're all cut from the same cloth and it annoys me that the biggest political icon in the last 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher, and she's a dick.

The foreword is a letter from Thatcher in which she summarises the feelings that she has for Number 10: " How much I wish that the public ... could share with me the feeling of Britain's historic greatness which pervades every nook and cranny of this complicated and meandering old building ... All Prime Ministers are intensely aware that, as tenants and stewards of No. 10 Downing Street, they have in their charge one of the most precious jewels in the nation's heritage.

Thatcher has launched a creative solutions project called ' Arkyard '.

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

He is embittered by his betrayal of his working class roots ( he has become a manager and partner in his engineering firm ), the Cold War, successive Thatcher governments, and the failure of his relationship under the pressure of Andrea's French lover's terminal illness.

Thatcher has published biographies of both her parents.

In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.

During the 1990s, the bitterness on the right wing of the Conservative Party at the manner in which Margaret Thatcher had been removed from office did not make Major's task any easier.

Two recent Prime Ministers, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, achieved celebrity status, like rock stars but have been criticised for their more ' presidential ' style of leadership ..

However in 1982 Thatcher wrote to President Reagan to request the United Kingdom be allowed to procure the Trident II ( Trident D5 ) system, the procurement of which had been accelerated by the US Navy.

However in 1982 Thatcher wrote to President Reagan to request the United Kingdom be allowed to procure the Trident II system, the procurement of which had been accelerated by the US Navy.

* 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.

Such allegations have been made against two recent British Prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.

This ban was imposed by the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher on 19 October 1988, the reason given being to " starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend " after the BBC interviewed Martin McGuinness and Adams had been the focus of a row over an edition of After Dark, an intended Channel 4 discussion programme which was never made.

He argued that, as he had opposed the Life Peerages Act 1958, it would be hypocritical for him to take one, but even if he was willing to accept a hereditary peerage ( which would have been extinct upon his death as he had no male heir ), Thatcher was unwilling to court the controversy that might have arisen as a result.

Thatcher had been labelled " dictatorial " for wanting to " go it alone " in Europe: " Well, I do not mind somebody being dictatorial in defending my own rights and those of my fellow countrymen ... lose self-government, and I have lost everything, and for good ".

Despite these measures, however, the Heath Government encouraged a significant increase in welfare spending, and Thatcher blocked Macleod's other posthumous Education policy: the abolition of the Open University, which had recently been founded by the preceding Labour Government.

When Thatcher visited Heath the day after her election as leader, accounts differ as to whether or not she offered him a place in her shadow cabinet – by some accounts she was detained for coffee by a colleague so that the waiting press would not realise how brief the meeting had been.

This scheme was eroded by the subsequent Thatcher Government, and insufficient pension rights had been built up by that time to establish resistance to its erosion.

Thatcher later wrote that her opposition to reunification had been an " unambiguous failure ".

Thatcher also claimed that the 1981 budget, which increased taxes during the recession and was criticised by 364 economists, had been devised by Walters.

Maurice Cowling and Roger Scruton were both influential fellows of the College and are sometimes described as key figures in the so-called " Peterhouse right " – an intellectual movement linked to Margaret Thatcher.

At Michael Portillo's fortieth birthday party the same month, Thatcher greeted him enthusiastically and asked him: " Enoch, I haven't seen you since your eightieth-birthday dinner.

Washington D. C. post authorities told Thatcher that he would have to rename the town of Gerrard, since it would conflict with mail going to Gerrardstown, a town 4 miles west.

Margaret Thatcher compared Blair with Gaitskell in a different manner, warning her party when Blair came to power that he was the most formidable Labour leader since Hugh Gaitskell.

Local Authorities have been discouraged from building council housing since 1979 following the election of Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher as prime minister.

In 2005, Heritage established the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom in honor of the former British Prime Minister, sponsoring hundreds of events involving world leaders since its inception.

Lady Thatcher has since been named Patron of the Heritage Foundation, her only official association with any U. S .- based group.

They have included all the British Prime Ministers since the Second World War except Winston Churchill, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, some, such as Margaret Thatcher, several times, as well as Prince Philip, General de Gaulle, General Sikorski and the Emperor Haile Selassie.

In December 2010 it was revealed that then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had agreed in 1980 to cover up revelations that Stonehouse had been a Czech spy since the 1960s as there was insufficient evidence to bring him to trial.

It was founded by Conservatives Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher in 1974 to champion economic liberalism in Britain and has since played a global role in the dissemination of free market economics along monetarist and, what today would be called, neoliberal lines.

The second Viscount held office in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major and since 2003 he is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

The shortfall in funding was plugged by Margaret Thatcher, who has since become the European Foundation's Patron.

* The Hon Sir Mark Thatcher, 2nd Bt ( since 26 June 2003 )

Ross Thatcher died on July 22 1971, just shy of a month since losing the election

In 1982, at the documenta 7 exhibition, Haacke exhibited a very large work that included oil portraits of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in 19th-century style, facing on the opposite wall a gigantic photograph of the demonstration against nuclear arms held earlier that year — the largest demonstration in Germany since the end of the Second World War.

Marshall was also a newspaper and magazine columnist, writing for The Sunday Telegraph in the 1970s and 1980s, and enjoying an association with the New Statesman that began in 1935 when he wrote his first of many Christmas reviews of books for girls, and ended in 1981 when he was sacked from its " First Person " column by editor Bruce Page ,-and which he had been writing since January 1976, having been asked by then editor Anthony Howard to replace Auberon Waugh who had gone to the Spectator-allegedly for being overtly sympathetic to Margaret Thatcher.

Chingford and Woodford Green and its predecessors have been solid Conservative since the beginning of the Thatcher period.

From the legal point of view, Cradock believed that since the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory would expire in 1997, Britain would no longer be able to govern Hong Kong effectively thereafter because the New Territories would have to be returned to China even though Hong Kong Island and Kowloon would not, and that was one of the main reasons why he advised Thatcher to compromise with China.

Thatcher was born in Hampton, Virginia, but has lived off the fifth hole at TPC at The Woodlands in The Woodlands, Texas since age 2.