How Margaret Thatcher’s Premiership Was Predicted Half a Century Ahead

How Margaret Thatcher’s Premiership Was Predicted Half a Century Ahead
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher meets personnel aboard the HMS Antrim on Jan. 8, 1983, during her five-day visit to the Falkland Islands. Sven Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images
C.P. Champion
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Margaret Thatcher was a courageous, iron-willed leader who made history in 1979 by becoming the first female prime minister of Great Britain.

C.P. Champion
C.P. Champion
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C.P. Champion, Ph.D., is the author of two books, was a fellow of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University in 2021, and edits The Dorchester Review magazine, which he founded in 2011.
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