When Margaret Thatcher Came to Power

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The British conservative politician was the first woman elected to lead a Western European country. She came to power on May 4th 1979. Rebecca Kesby has been speaking to Caroline Slocock who worked with Mrs Thatcher as her private secretary, while she was Prime Minister.

Photo: British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with husband Denis on May 4th 1979. (Credit: John Minihan/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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1:05.9	Hello and thank you for downloading this witness history
1:08.6	podcast from the BBC World Service with me Rebecca Kessby. And today we head for Britain in May 1979
1:15.7	and the beginning of a political and social revolution with the election of the
1:20.6	first female leader in Western Europe, Margaret Thatcher.
1:25.0	Her majesty, the Queen, has asked me to form a new administration and I have accepted.
1:32.0	On May the 4th 1979, and I have accepted.
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