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Margaret Thatcher - Coggle Diagram
Margaret Thatcher
Policy
Wanted to reduce the powers of the trade unions which she saw as a threat to the UK's industrial progress. Took on Arthur Scargill.
Monetarist (keep inflation constant and relatively low), promoted privatisation.
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Taunted as 'Thatcher the milk snatcher' because of her decision to take away a programme that provided free milk for children.
Wanted to modernise industry, especially steel, and close the mines etc. Unemployment peaked at 3 million.
Leadership
Seen as one of two agenda-setting PMs post-WW2, along with Clement Attlee.
Seen as being the first ideological Conservative leader. Instrumental in the New Right movement in the UK, which focused on conservative social values and more liberal economic ones.
Helped by the 'Falklands Factor', which gave the public an impression that Thatcher was a strong and decisive leader.
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Cabinet
Thatcher's Cabinet was instrumental in her downfall as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party. She was put up for a leadership contest against Michael Heseltine at which she lost the first ballot. However Heseltine was unpopular with many in the party and they preferred someone like John Major. They told her to resign so that Heseltine would not win the second ballot and she did.
Thatcher's relationship with her former Chancellor Geoffrey Howe was by all accounts a tense one; some in Cabinet perceived she was bullying towards him, she demoted him to Foreign Secretary, and then he resigned.
'Dries' vs. 'wets'. In Thatcher's first Cabinet, there were political rivals, acolytes and those who disagreed with her.
Personality
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Stubborn, got the nicknames 'That Bloody Woman' and 'The Iron Lady'
Elections
In May 1979, the Conservatives under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher were swept into power with the largest electoral swing since 1945, securing a 43 seat majority.
Party
Had a steady rise within the Conservative Party serving as a parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance from 1961–64 Chief Opposition Spokesman on Education from 1969–70, and as Secretary of State for Education and Science from 1970–74 under Heath.