2007-05-30 21:01:05 · 17 answers · asked by hungchief 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
PM Margaret Thatcher
2007-05-30 21:09:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Margaret Thatcher. Prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
2007-05-31 22:51:17 · answer #2 · answered by John M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born Margaret Hilda Roberts on 13 October 1925) is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. She was leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990. She is the first and to date only woman to have held the office of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Thatcher was the longest-serving British Prime Minister since Lord Salisbury and had the longest continuous period in office since Lord Liverpool in the early 19th century. She was the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK, and the first of only two women to have held any of the four great offices of state.
2007-05-31 04:14:46 · answer #3 · answered by Mehdi 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Margaret Thatcher
2007-05-31 04:09:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Margaret Thatcher
2007-05-31 04:03:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Margaret Thatcher
2007-05-31 04:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by Amy 911 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iron Lady is a nickname that has frequently been used to describe female heads of government around the world. The term describes a "strong willed" woman. This iron metaphor was most famously applied to Margaret Thatcher, nicknamed so in 1976 by the Soviet media for her staunch opposition to communism.
Leaders who have earned the unofficial title (some of them postfactum) include:
Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984
Golda Meir, the Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
Barbara Castle, a British left-wing politician (1910-2002).[2]
Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany since 2005
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the President of Liberia since 2006
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948
Biljana PlavÅ¡iÄ, served in the Bosnian Serb government from 1992 to 1998.
Wu Yi, a vice-premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China from 2002 to now
Some female politicians have been given similar nicknames:
The Iron Butterfly is a nickname of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos.
Iron Rita is a nickname of Dutch minister Rita Verdonk
"Jern-Erna" (meaning; "Iron-Erna") is a nickname of the leader of the Norwegian Conservative Party, Erna Solberg.
Former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was given the nickname "Titanium Lady", playing on some of her similarities with Thatcher.
"Iron Lady of the Seas", a 1984 video, and Iron Lady at Sea, a 1988 book, are about Star of India, the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship afloat launched in 1863
2007-05-31 04:35:45 · answer #7 · answered by Michael N 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Margaret Thatcher for 2 points,Alex.
2007-06-04 01:15:15 · answer #8 · answered by R B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come on people!!! Of course this is Thatcher. She was the only FEMALE Prime Minister in UK history. But considering the feminised (Labour) PM's of the UK such as Chamberlaine, I can understand your confusion.
2007-05-31 18:32:29 · answer #9 · answered by flightleader 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Magaret Thatcher
2007-05-31 04:05:19 · answer #10 · answered by nimesh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋