00:00Meet Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady who wielded power with her strong will and tough attitude.
00:11As the United Kingdom's first female Prime Minister, she was a powerful leader who never backed down.
00:18A fierce opponent of socialism and government control of the economy,
00:23Thatcher stood for free markets and individual responsibility.
00:28Here are her most iconic speeches, moments when her words showed the heart of her leadership and the challenges she faced.
00:43It is 1980 at the Conservative Party conference.
00:46The economy is struggling and even some in her own party want her to back off her tough policies.
00:53But Margaret Thatcher stands on stage and replies to everyone in no uncertain terms.
01:00A phrase that became her battle cry, showing that she would stay firm no matter the criticism or pressure.
01:08For that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say.
01:15You turn if you want to.
01:17The ladies not for turning.
01:20Fast forward to 1990.
01:29Thatcher in UK Parliament heatedly rejected a European Union vision that would centralise more power in Brussels.
01:36When the European Commission President outlines plans for a stronger European Parliament and a united federal structure,
01:43she responds sharply with three emphatic no's.
01:47It's her way of pushing back firmly against losing British control to Europe.
01:53Yes, the Commission does want to increase its powers.
01:57Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to increase its powers against its powers.
02:02So, of course, we are differing.
02:04Of course, the Chairman or the President of the Commission, Mr. Delors, said at press conference the other day
02:10that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the community.
02:15He wanted the Commission to be the executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate.
02:20No, no, no.
02:30In a defining moment of a Premiership, Margaret Thatcher delivered many studying declarations
02:36following the United Kingdom's victory in the 1982 Falklands War.
02:41This statement came as Britain celebrated retaking the Falkland Islands from Argentine forces,
02:47symbolising a resurgence of national pride and military resolve.
02:52The victory bolstered her reputation as the Iron Lady.
02:56One's learned throughout this whole Falklands campaign that things tend to take longer than you expect.
03:04The joy set that news and congratulate our forces and the Marine.
03:09It was because the Argentines refused to withdraw from the Falkland Islands.
03:13That didn't surprise me.
03:15I somehow never thought a dictatorship.
03:23Margaret Thatcher's famously dubbed The Mummy Returns speech was delivered
03:28during a Conservative Party rally in Plymouth.
03:31The speech got its nickname because her arrival coincided with the release of the film
03:36The Mummy Returns, which the local cinema advertised on a billboard.
03:40Thatcher playfully referenced this in her remarks.
03:44And it turns out that you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read, The Mummy Returns.
03:54Shortly after winning her first general election and becoming Prime Minister on 4th of May 1979, she arrived at 10 Downing Street.
04:09She was paraphrasing the prayer of Saint Francis in this statement, expressing her commitment to healing divisions,
04:16promoting truth and inspiring confidence during a difficult period for the United Kingdom.
04:22Where there is discord, may we bring harmony.
04:26Where there is error, may we bring truth.
04:29Where there is doubt, may we bring faith.
04:32And where there is despair, may we bring hope.
04:35Despite initially promising to fight on, Thatcher, on 22 November 1990, ultimately decided to resign as party leader and Prime Minister.
04:50In her resignation speech, she defended her economic policies and argued against reducing the rich income at the expense of the poor.
04:59Mr. Speaker, all levels of income are better off than they were in 1979.
05:06But what the Honourable Member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich.
05:16That way you will never create the wealth for better social services as we have.
05:22And what a policy.
05:23Yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided the rich were less rich.
05:29That is the liberal policy.
05:31Yes, it came out.
05:32He didn't intend it to, but he did.
05:34I think I must have hit the right nail on the head when I pointed out that the logic of those policies are they'd rather have the poor poorer.
05:42Once they start to talk about the gap, they'd rather the gap was that.
05:49Down here.
05:50That.
05:52Not that.
05:55But that.
05:56So long as the gap is smaller, so long as the gap is smaller, they'd rather have the poor poorer.
06:07You do not create wealth and opportunity that way.
06:11You do not create a poverty-owning democracy that way.
06:15Ladies and gentlemen, we're leaving Downing Street for the last time after 11 and a half wonderful years.
06:26In Yeo'S dank and wine.
06:27We've been playing in genome.
06:28To be open in one field there.
06:31We've seen more than 100 people here in Europe.
06:32You've been making lives every year.
06:36It's been our long time then.
06:38We have been able to be peaceful this past year.
06:41We've been happy.
06:42You've lived in space every year.
06:43You hope to be together in a fusion every year.
06:46You've been grateful.
06:48You've been in space every year, you've been on a pedestal after time for whatever time.
06:51You haven't ever built perhaps a fight to be our goals.
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