Margaret Thatcher 1987 Election
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Margaret thatcher 1987 election. As the election approached the government had successfully put the industrial disputes of the. Woman to woman with miriam stoppard political history documentary timeline duration. 633 376 9 30 21 5785 422 13760583 02 labour.
Timeline world history documentaries 28831 views 3349. The 1987 united kingdom general election was held on thursday 11 june 1987 to elect 650 members to the house of commons of the united kingdom. The westland affair was used to show thatcher as intransigent and a poor listener.
On the general election of 1987 thatcher had suffered from the westland affair and the attack on libya but britain was healing economically. But in deciding to go to the voters with 13 months left in her five year term she was responding to election fever in. 633 22 5 6 1 338 226 7341633 28 snp.
13 october 1925 8 april 2013 was a british stateswoman who served as prime minister of the united kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the conservative party from 1975 to 1990. 633 229 26 6 20 3523 308 10029807 32 alliance. The election was the third consecutive general election victory for the conservative party and second landslide under the leadership of margaret thatcher who became the first prime minister since the earl of liverpool in 1820 to lead a party into three successive electoral victories.
Uk general election 1987 candidates votes party leader stood elected gained unseated net of total no. She was the longest serving british prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. Thatcher could have called an election as late as july 7 1988.
The conservative prime minister margaret thatcher won an historic third term in office in 1987.