Margaret Thatcher died

The former prime minister of Margaret Thatcher died in the UK, reports Sky News with reference to the adviser Tetcher Lord Bell. According to him, 87-year-old Baroness "quietly died" early on the morning of April 8 as a result of a stroke. Bell promised that Tatcher's relatives and friends would in the near future make an official statement about this.

Margaret Thatcher held the post of prime minister from 1979 to 1990, for the solid character it was called the "Iron Lady". Thatcher belongs to the record of the head of the British government in the 20th century. In 2002, she survived several heart attacks, and in 2005 - microstroke.

Thatcher was the first and so far the only woman who visited the Prime Minister of Great Britain, as well as the first woman who became the Prime Minister of the European State.

Having received the education of a chemist, Thatcher became a lawyer, in 1959 he was elected a member of the parliament. In 1970, he was appointed Minister of Education and Science in the government of Conservative Edward Hit. In 1975, Thatcher defeated the hit in the election of the new head of the conservative party and became the head of the parliamentary opposition, as well as the first woman who headed one of the main parties of Great Britain. After the victory of the conservative party in the general election of 1979, Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister.

As the head of the government, Thatcher carried out political and economic reforms to cancel what she considered the decline of the country. Its political philosophy and economic policy were based on the deregulation of the financial system, ensuring the flexible labor market, privatization of state companies and a decrease in the influence of trade unions. Thatcher's high popularity in the early years of government decreased due to recession and high unemployment, but again grew during the 1982 Falkland War and economic growth, which led to its re-election in 1983.