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.

Joseph's close friend and ally Margaret Thatcher, who believed an adherent to CPS philosophy should stand, joined the leadership contest in his place alongside the outsider Hugh Fraser.

Lamont joined with Margaret Thatcher in defending Pinochet, calling him a " good and brave and honourable soldier " His stance was highly controversial

After the 1983 election, Ridley-always regarded by Margaret Thatcher as " one of us "-was a beneficiary of her move to cull the Tory wets and joined her cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport.

His wife and children – on holiday in Azerbaijan at the time of his escape – finally joined him in the UK six years later, after extensive lobbying by the British Government, and personally by Margaret Thatcher during her meetings with Gorbachev.

In parliament Michael Fallon was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Energy Cecil Parkinson following the 1987 General Election, and in 1988 joined the government of Margaret Thatcher as an Assistant Whip, becoming a Lord Commissioner to the Treasury in 1990.

He eventually joined the Conservative Research Department and moved on to become correspondence secretary to Margaret Thatcher.

Caudle was joined by a rotating host of co-hosts ( everyone from Les Thatcher to Dr. Tom Miller ) before David Crockett stepped out of the ring after a short, uncelebrated career as a wrestler to become Caudle's color man.

In April 2004, Baroness Thatcher joined members of WPC Fletcher's family for a service to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of Yvonne's murder.

He joined the shadow cabinet in 1976 and the Cabinet when Margaret Thatcher won the 1979 general election.

The Thatcher family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1843, and moved to Macedonia, Illinois and later to Nauvoo.

In January 2005 Thatcher nearly joined Fulham for a fee of £ 500, 000 after a series of burglaries unsettled his family, but the move fell through.

Carol Thatcher wrote in her book Below the Parapet that her parents, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis used to joke that CHOGM stood for " Coons holidaying on government money ".

In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his " services to the study of economics.

In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour ( CH ) by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on the advice of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his " services to the study of economics.

Major entered the contest alongside Douglas Hurd on 22 November after Thatcher abandoned her plans to contest the second ballot, ending her 11 years as prime minister and 15 years as party leader.

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.

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.

Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).

With the Labour left still strong – in 1981 Benn decided to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, a contest Healey won narrowly – Foot struggled to make an impact and was widely criticised for it, though his performances in the Commons, most notably on the Falklands war of 1982, won him widespread respect from other parliamentarians, though he was criticised by some on the left who felt that he should not have supported the Thatcher government's immediate resort to military action.

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.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had written to President Carter on July 10, 1980 to request that he approve supply of Trident I missiles.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wrote to President Carter on July 10, 1980, to request that he approve supply of Trident I missiles.

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

* 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.

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.

During February 1975, after winning the leadership election, Margaret Thatcher refused to offer Powell a Shadow Cabinet place because " he turned his back on his own people " by leaving the Conservative Party exactly 12 months earlier and telling the electorate to vote Labour.

Though he voted with the Conservatives in a vote of confidence that brought down the Labour government on 28 March, Powell did not welcome the victory of Margaret Thatcher in the May 1979 election.

Then on 11 April, was a riot in Brixton and when on 13 April Thatcher was quoted Powell's remark that " We have seen nothing yet " by an interviewer she replied: " I heard him say that and I thought it was a very very alarming remark.

After British forces successfully recaptured the Falklands, Powell asked Thatcher in the Commons on 17 June, recalling his statement to her of 3 April: " Is the right hon.

In a speech at Chatham House for the launch of the book on 6 September, he advised Thatcher to fight the next general election on a nationalist theme as many Eastern European nations previously under Russian rule were gaining their freedom.