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I know for well the responsibilities that await me as I enter the door of number 10

and I'll strive unceasingly to try to fulfil the trust and confidence that the British

people have placed in me and the things in which I believe. And I would just like to remember

some words of some Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment

where there is discord, may we bring harmony, where there is error, may we bring truth,

where there is doubt, may we bring faith, and where there is despair, may we bring hope.

It's 1979. With the biggest swing since 1945, the Conservative Party forms the first

government in nine years to hold a decent parliamentary majority. Margaret Fatcher, Britain's

first female Prime Minister, takes office promising to end years of weak government and economic

malaise, her solution, deregulation of the city of London and control of the money supply,

unemployment soles and taxer faces pressure to change tack. Although she publicly pledges not to

you term, Fatcher does change course. She banners, monetarism and embraces a new economic approach,

privatisation. She passes laws to allow tenants to buy their council houses and transfer

as public assets into private hands. In 1982, in what turned out to be a stroke of good fortune

for the government, Argentina invades the Falklands. British forces retake the islands and

thatcher's political stock saws. Aided by the afterglow of victory and a split opposition,

she leads the Conservatives to a landslide victory in 1983.

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