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00:00prime minister of the united kingdom 1979 to 1990 prime minister of the united kingdom iron lady
00:11margaret thatcher his political career and achievements everything about the kingdom and
00:18prime minister of the united kingdom margaret thatcher her life and everything about him
00:23part 7 jeffrey howe baron howe of abrevavon was also in attendance and said of his former leader
00:30her real triumph was to have transformed not just one party but two so that when labor did eventually
00:36return the great bulk of thatcherism was accepted as irreversible in 2006 thatcher attended the
00:42official washington memorial service to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 9 11 attacks on the
00:47u.s she was a guest of vice president dick cheney and met secretary of state condoleezza rice during
00:53her visit in february 2007 thatcher became the first living british prime minister to be honored with a
01:00statue in the houses of parliament the bronze statue stood opposite that of her political hero winston
01:06churchill and was unveiled on the 21st of february 2007 with thatcher in attendance she remarked in
01:12the members lobby of the commons i might have preferred iron but bronze will do it won't rust
01:19thatcher was a public supporter of the prague declaration on european conscience and communism
01:24and the resulting prague process and sent a public letter of support to its preceding conference
01:30after collapsing at a house of lords dinner thatcher suffering low blood pressure was admitted to st
01:35thomas hospital in central london on the 7th of march 2008 for tests
01:40in 2009 she was hospitalized again when she fell and broke her arm thatcher returned to 10 downing
01:46street in late november 2009 for the unveiling of an official portrait by artist richard stone
01:52an unusual honor for a living former prime minister stone was previously commissioned to
01:57paint portraits of the queen and queen mother on the 4th of july 2011 thatcher was to attend a ceremony
02:03for the unveiling of a 10 feet 3.0 meters statue of ronald reagan outside the u.s embassy in london
02:09but was unable to attend due to her frail health on the 4th of july 2011 thatcher was to attend a
02:15ceremony for the unveiling of a 10 feet 3.0 meters statue of ronald reagan outside the u.s embassy in
02:21london but was unable to attend due to her frail health she last attended a sitting of the house of
02:26lords on the 19th of july 2010 and on the 30th of july 2011 it was announced that her office in the
02:33lords had been closed earlier that month thatcher was named the most competent prime minister of
02:39the past 30 years in an ipsos mori poll thatcher's daughter carol first revealed that her mother had
02:45dementia in 2005 saying mom doesn't read much anymore because of her memory loss in her 2008 memoir carol
02:53wrote that her mother could hardly remember the beginning of a sentence by the time she got to the
02:57end she later recounted how she was first struck by her mother's dementia when in conversation thatcher
03:04confused the falklands and yugoslav conflicts she recalled the pain of needing to tell her mother
03:08repeatedly that her husband dennis was dead thatcher died on the 8th of april 2013 at the age of 87
03:15after suffering a stroke she had been staying at a suite in the ritz hotel in london since december 2012
03:21after having difficulty with stairs at her chester square home in belgravia her death certificate
03:28listed the primary causes of death as a cerebrovascular accident and repeated transient ischemic
03:33attack secondary causes were listed as a quote carcinoma of the bladder and dementia reactions to
03:41the news of thatcher's death were mixed across the uk ranging from tributes lauding her as britain's
03:47greatest ever peacetime prime minister to public celebrations of her death and expressions of hatred
03:54and personalized vitriol details of thatcher's funeral had been agreed upon with her in advance
04:00she received a ceremonial funeral including full military honors with a church service at saint
04:05paul's cathedral on the 17th of april queen elizabeth ii and the duke of edinburgh attended her funeral
04:11marking only the second and final time in the queen's reign that she attended the funeral of any of her
04:16former prime ministers after that of churchill who received a state funeral in 1965. after the
04:22service at saint paul's thatcher's body was cremated at mortlake where her husband's had been cremated
04:28on the 28th of september a service for thatcher was held in the all saints chapel of the royal hospital
04:34chelsea's margaret thatcher infirmary in a private ceremony thatcher's ashes were interred in
04:39the hospital's grounds next to her husband's thatcherism represented a systematic and decisive
04:45overhaul of the post-war consensus whereby the major political parties largely agreed on the central
04:50themes of keynesianism the welfare state nationalized industry and close regulation of the economy and
04:57high taxes thatcher generally supported the welfare state while proposing to rid it of abuses she promised
05:04in 1982 that the highly popular national health service was safe in our hands at first she ignored the
05:10question of privatizing nationalized industries heavily influenced by right-wing think tanks and
05:16especially by sir keith joseph thatcher broadened her attack thatcherism came to refer to her policies
05:22as well as aspects of her ethical outlook and personal style including moral absolutism nationalism
05:29liberal individualism and an uncompromising approach to achieving political goals thatcher defined her
05:36political philosophy in a major and controversial break with the one nation conservatism of her
05:41predecessor edward heath in a 1987 interview published in woman's own magazine i think we have
05:47gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand i have a problem
05:53it is the government's job to cope with it or i have a problem i will go and get a grant to cope with it
06:00i am homeless the government must house me and so they are casting their problems on society and who is
06:06society there is no such thing there are individual men and women and there are families and no government
06:13can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first it is our duty to look after
06:19ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbor and life is a reciprocal business and people
06:24have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations speaking in scotland in 2009 thatcher
06:32insisted she had no regrets and was right to introduce the poll tax and withdraw subsidies from
06:37outdated industries whose markets were in terminal decline subsidies that created the culture of
06:43dependency which had done such damage to britain political economist susan strange termed the
06:49neoliberal financial growth model casino capitalism reflecting her view that speculation and financial
06:55trading were becoming more important to the economy than industry critics on the left describe her as
07:00divisive and say she condoned greed and selfishness leading welsh politician rodri morgan among others
07:06characterized thatcher as a marmite figure journalist michael white writing in the aftermath of the 2008
07:13financial crisis challenged the view that her reforms were still a net benefit others consider
07:19her approach to have been a mixed bag and condal crotui french and doll crotus rend condal crotui
07:24french array thatcher did little to advance the political cause of women within her party or the
07:29government some british feminists regarded her as an enemy june purvis in women's history review says that
07:35although thatcher had struggled laboriously against the sexist prejudices of her day to rise to the top
07:41she made no effort to ease the path for other women thatcher did not regard women's rights as
07:46requiring particular attention as she did not especially during her premiership consider that
07:51women were being deprived of their rights she had once suggested the shortlisting of women by default
07:56for all public appointments and proposed that those with young children should leave the workforce
08:01thatcher's stance on immigration in the late 1970s was perceived as part of a rising racist public
08:07discourse which martin barker terms new racism in opposition thatcher believed that the national front
08:13nf was winning over large numbers of conservative voters with warnings against floods of immigrants
08:19her strategy was to undermine the nf narrative by acknowledging that many of their voters had serious
08:24concerns in need of addressing in 1978 she criticized labor's immigration policy to attract voters away
08:30from the nf to the conservatives her rhetoric was followed by increased conservative support at the
08:36expense of the nf critics on the left accused her of pandering to racism many thatcherite policies
08:42influenced the labor party which returned to power in 1997 under tony blair blair rebranded the party
08:49new labor in 1994 with the aim of increasing its appeal beyond its traditional supporters and to attract
08:56those who had supported thatcher such as the essex man thatcher is said to have regarded the new labor
09:01rebranding as her greatest achievement in contrast to blair the conservative party under william haig
09:07attempted to distance himself and the party from thatcher's economic policies in an attempt to gain
09:12public approval shortly after thatcher died in 2013 scottish first minister alex salmond argued
09:18that her policies had the unintended consequence of encouraging scottish devolution lord folks of
09:24cumnock agreed on scotland tonight that she had provided the impetus for devolution writing for the
09:30scotsman in 1997 thatcher argued against devolution on the basis that it would eventually lead to scottish
09:36independence thatcher argued against devolution on the basis that it would eventually lead to scottish
09:42independence thatcher's tenure of 11 years and 209 days as british prime minister was the longest since
09:48lord salisbury in the late 19th century 13 years and 252 days in three spells and the longest continuous
09:56period in office since lord liverpool in the early 19th century 14 years and 305 days having led the
10:03conservative party to victory in three consecutive general elections twice in a landslide she ranks
10:09among the most popular party leaders in british history regarding votes cast for the winning party
10:14over 40 million ballots were cast in total for the party under her leadership her electoral successes
10:20were dubbed a historic hat trick by the british press in 1987 thatcher ranked highest among living
10:27persons in the 2002 bbc poll 100 greatest britons in 1999 time deemed thatcher one of the 100 most
10:36important people of the 20th century in 2015 she topped a poll by scottish widows a major financial
10:43services company as the most influential woman of the past 200 years and in 2016 topped bbc radio 4
10:504's woman's hour power list of women judged to have had the biggest impact on female lives over
10:55the past 70 years in 2020 time magazine included thatcher's name on its list of 100 women of the year
11:03she was chosen as the woman of the year in 1982 when the falklands war began under her command
11:09resulting in the british victory in contrast to her relatively poor average approval rating as prime minister
11:15thatcher has since ranked highly in retrospective opinion polling and according to yougov is c in
11:21overall positive terms by the british public just after her death in 2013 according to a poll by the
11:27guardian about half of the public viewed her positively while one-third viewed her negatively
11:32in a 2019 opinion poll by yougov most britons rated her as britain's greatest post-war leader with
11:38churchill coming second according to the poll more than 4 in 10 britons 44 think that thatcher was
11:46a good or great prime minister compared to 29 who think she was a poor or terrible one she was voted the
11:53fourth greatest british prime minister of the 20th century in a 2011 poll of 139 academics organized by
12:02maury in a 2016 university of leeds survey of 82 academics specializing in post-1945 british history
12:10and politics she was voted the second greatest british prime minister after the second world war
12:16according to theater critic michael billington thatcher left an emphatic mark on the arts while
12:21prime minister one of the earliest satires of thatcher as prime minister involved satirist john wells as
12:28writer and performer actress janet brown voicing thatcher and future spitting image producer john
12:34lloyd as co-producer who in 1979 were teamed up by producer martin lewis for the satirical audio
12:41album the iron lady which consisted of skits and songs satirizing thatcher's rise to power
12:47the album was released in september 1979 thatcher was heavily satirized on spitting image and the
12:53independent labeled her every stand-up's dream thatcher was the subject or the inspiration for
12:591980s protest songs musicians billy bragg and paul weller helped to form the red wedge collective to
13:07support labor in opposition to thatcher known as maggie by supporters and opponents alike the chant song
13:13maggie out became a signature rallying cry among the left during the latter half of her premiership
13:18wells parodied thatcher in several media he collaborated with richard ingrams on the spoof
13:25dear bill letters which ran as a column in private eye magazine they were also published in book form
13:30and became a west end stage review titled anyone for dennis with wells in the role of thatcher's
13:36husband it was followed by a 1982 tv special directed by dick clement in which thatcher was played
13:42by angela thorne since her premiership thatcher has been portrayed in a number of television programs
13:48documentaries films and plays she was portrayed by patricia hodge in ian curtis's long unproduced
13:56the falklands play 2002 and by andrea riseborough in the tv film the long walk to finchley 2008.
14:04she is the protagonist in two films played by lindsey duncan in margaret 2009 and by meryl streep in
14:10the iron lady 2011 in which she is depicted as suffering from dementia or alzheimer's disease
14:16she is a main character in the fourth season of the crown played by jillian anderson thatcher
14:21has a supporting role in the 2024 biographical film reagan played by leslie ann down thatcher
14:28became a privy counselor pc on becoming a secretary of state in 1970 she was the first woman entitled to
14:34full membership rights as an honorary member of the carlton club on becoming conservative party leader in
14:391975. as prime minister thatcher received two honorary distinctions the 24th of october 1979 honorary
14:49fellowship of the royal institute of chemistry hon frick which was merged into the royal society of
14:54chemistry the following year and the first of july 1983 fellowship of the royal society frs a point of
15:02con two weeks after her resignation thatcher was appointed member of the order of merit om by the
15:08queen thatcher's husband dennis was made a hereditary baronet at the same time as his wife thatcher was
15:15entitled to use the honorific style lady and automatically confer title that she declined to
15:20use she would be made lady thatcher in her own right on her subsequent ennoblement in the falklands
15:26margaret thatcher day has been marked each the 10th of january since 1992 commemorating her first visit
15:32to the islands in january 1983 six months after the end of the falklands war in june 1982 thatcher became
15:39a member of the house of lords in 1992 with a life peerage as baroness thatcher of cesteven in the
15:44county of lincolnshire subsequently the college of arms granted her use of a personal coat of arms
15:52she was allowed to revise these arms on her appointment as lady companion of the order of
15:57the garter lg in 1995 the uk's highest order of chivalry in the u.s thatcher received the ronald
16:04reagan freedom award from the reagan presidential foundation in 1998 she was designated a patron of
16:10the heritage foundation in 2006 where she established the margaret thatcher center for freedom i stop at
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