[309] She delivered her eulogy via videotape; in view of her health, the message had been pre-recorded several months earlier. He said that she felt Thatcher's policies were "uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive". Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister in British history, announces her resignation after 11 years in Britain’s top office. [21] She defeated Heath on the first ballot and he resigned the leadership. British Steel Corporation had made great gains in profitability while still a nationalised industry under the government-appointed MacGregor chairmanship, which faced down trade-union opposition to close plants and halve the workforce. Texts for listed statements are available on … The album was released in September 1979. As prime minister, Thatcher met weekly with Queen Elizabeth II to discuss government business, and their relationship came under close scrutiny. "[225][226] Thatcher's government supplied military forces to the international coalition in the build-up to the Gulf War, but she had resigned by the time hostilities began on 17 January 1991. Margaret Thatcher, Herself Alone, of Charles Moore, former director of the British newspaper The Telegraph, presents the leader since 1987, when she won her third consecutive general elections, until her last days, where stories about the ravages they had made in it the degenerative diseases he suffered. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband on political outings, but she was beside him, along with Texas ...read more, On November 22, 1942, a Soviet counteroffensive against the German armies pays off as the Red Army traps about a quarter-million German soldiers south of Kalach, on the Don River, within Stalingrad. Britain has a new prime minister for the first time in more than 11 years. [214][215], During her first year as prime minister she supported NATO's decision to deploy US nuclear cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe,[147] permitting the US to station more than 160 cruise missiles at RAF Greenham Common, starting in November 1983 and triggering mass protests by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. [302], She broached the same subject in her Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, which was published in April 2002 and dedicated to Ronald Reagan, writing that there would be no peace in the Middle East until Saddam was toppled. [108][109][110], Thatcher was Opposition leader and prime minister at a time of increased racial tension in Britain. [244] She attempted to preserve trade with South Africa while persuading the government there to abandon apartheid. [76] Her decision provoked a storm of protest from Labour and the press,[77] leading to her being notoriously nicknamed "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher". 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