Margaret Thatcher died on Monday, April 8, 2013. Who was Margaret Thatcher? What was her nickname and why was she called this? Tell me something important that she did or caused.
Margaret Thatcher was the longest serving, and only female, prime minister for Great Britain for the 20th century, serving for 11 years. She also lead Great Britain's Conservative Party from 1975-1990. Her nickname was "Iron Lady" by a Soviet journalist because of the uncompromising politics she adopted. Her policies that she put into place is called Thatcherism. She enacted policies that deregulation, selling government industries to privatize them, and to reduce the power of trade unions. She died after having a stroke at The Ritz Hotel.
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