60 Facts About Iron Lady

Iron Lady was the first female British prime minister and the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.

Iron Lady was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959.

Iron Lady resigned as prime minister and party leader in 1990, after a challenge was launched to her leadership.

Iron Lady's tenure constituted a realignment towards neoliberal policies in Britain, with the complicated legacy attributed to Thatcherism debated into the 21st century.

Iron Lady's parents were Alfred Roberts, from Northamptonshire, and Beatrice Ethel Stephenson, from Lincolnshire.

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Iron Lady's father's maternal grandmother, Catherine Sullivan, was born in County Kerry, Ireland.

Iron Lady's dissertation was on the structure of the antibiotic gramicidin.

Iron Lady was reportedly prouder of becoming the first prime minister with a science degree than becoming the first female prime minister.

Iron Lady was influenced at university by political works such as Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, which condemned economic intervention by government as a precursor to an authoritarian state.

Iron Lady married at Wesley's Chapel and her children were baptised there, but she and her husband began attending Church of England services and would later convert to Anglicanism.

Iron Lady lost on both occasions to Norman Dodds, but reduced the Labour majority by 6,000, and then a further 1,000.

Iron Lady was elected as MP for the seat after a hard campaign in the 1959 election.

Iron Lady moved to the Shadow Treasury team in 1966 and, as Treasury spokeswoman, opposed Labour's mandatory price and income controls, arguing they would unintentionally produce effects that would distort the economy.

Iron Lady voted in favour of David Steel's bill to legalise abortion, as well as a ban on hare coursing.

Iron Lady supported the retention of capital punishment and voted against the relaxation of divorce laws.

Iron Lady believed that his main points about Commonwealth immigration were correct and that the selected quotations from his speech had been taken out of context.

Iron Lady was highly criticised for the speed at which she carried this out.

Iron Lady gave priority to academic needs in schools, while administering public expenditure cuts on the state education system, resulting in the abolition of free milk for schoolchildren aged seven to eleven.

Iron Lady held that few children would suffer if schools were charged for milk but agreed to provide younger children with 0.

Iron Lady argued that she was simply carrying on with what the Labour government had started since they had stopped giving free milk to secondary schools.

Iron Lady's decision provoked a storm of protest from Labour and the press, leading to her being notoriously nicknamed "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher".

Iron Lady defeated Heath on the first ballot and he resigned the leadership.

Iron Lady toured the United States in 1975 and met President Gerald Ford, visiting again in 1977, when she met President Jimmy Carter.

Iron Lady instructed Conservative MPs to vote against the Scotland and Wales Bill in December 1976, which was successfully defeated, and then when new Bills were proposed she supported amending the legislation to allow the English to vote in the 1979 referendum on Scottish devolution.

The Soviet Army journal Red Star reported her stance in a piece headlined "Iron Lady Raises Fears", alluding to her remarks on the Iron Curtain.

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The "Iron Lady" metaphor followed her throughout ever since, and would become a generic sobriquet for other strong-willed female politicians.

Iron Lady said that she felt Thatcher's policies were "uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive".

Iron Lady increased interest rates to slow the growth of the money supply, and thereby lower inflation; introduced cash limits on public spending and reduced expenditure on social services such as education and housing.

Iron Lady was committed to reducing the power of the unions, whose leadership she accused of undermining parliamentary democracy and economic performance through strike action.

Iron Lady delivered her speech as planned, though rewritten from her original draft, in a move that was widely supported across the political spectrum and enhanced her popularity with the public.

Iron Lady's speeches included one to the Royal Society in 1988, followed by another to the UN General Assembly in 1989.

Iron Lady condemned the invasion, said it showed the bankruptcy of a detente policy and helped convince some British athletes to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Iron Lady gave weak support to US president Jimmy Carter who tried to punish the USSR with economic sanctions.

Iron Lady went on a state visit to the Soviet Union in 1984 and met with Gorbachev and Council of Ministers chairman Nikolai Ryzhkov.

Iron Lady gave strong support to the Reagan administration's Cold War policies based on their shared distrust of communism.

Iron Lady applauded the coalition victory on the backbenches, while warning that "the victories of peace will take longer than the battles of war".

Iron Lady attempted to preserve trade with South Africa while persuading its government to abandon apartheid.

Iron Lady expressed concern that a united Germany would align itself more closely with the Soviet Union and move away from NATO.

Iron Lady's resignation was a shock to many outside Britain, with such foreign observers as Henry Kissinger and Gorbachev expressing private consternation.

Iron Lady wrote two volumes of memoirs, The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power.

Iron Lady cited the help he gave Britain during the Falklands War.

Iron Lady broached the same subject in her Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, which was published in April 2002 and dedicated to Ronald Reagan, writing that there would be no peace in the Middle East until Saddam was toppled.

Iron Lady's book said that Israel must trade land for peace and that the European Union was a "fundamentally unreformable", "classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure".

Iron Lady argued that Britain should renegotiate its terms of membership or else leave the EU and join the North American Free Trade Area.

Iron Lady delivered her eulogy via videotape; in view of her health, the message had been pre-recorded several months earlier.

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Iron Lady last attended a sitting of the House of Lords on 19 July 2010, and on 30 July 2011 it was announced that her office in the Lords had been closed.

Iron Lady later recounted how she was first struck by her mother's dementia when, in conversation, Thatcher confused the Falklands and Yugoslav conflicts; she recalled the pain of needing to tell her mother repeatedly that her husband Denis was dead.

Iron Lady had been staying at a suite in the Ritz Hotel in London since December 2012 after having difficulty with stairs at her Chester Square home in Belgravia.

Iron Lady promised in 1982 that the highly popular National Health Service was "safe in our hands".

Iron Lady had once suggested the shortlisting of women by default for all public appointments yet had proposed that those with young children ought to leave the workforce.

Iron Lady's strategy was to undermine the NF narrative by acknowledging that many of their voters had serious concerns in need of addressing.

Iron Lady's rhetoric was followed by an increase in Conservative support at the expense of the NF.

Iron Lady was chosen as the Woman of the Year 1982, the year in which the Falklands War began under her command and resulted in the British victory.

Iron Lady was voted the fourth-greatest British prime minister of the 20th century in a 2011 poll of 139 academics organised by MORI.

One of the earliest satires of Thatcher as prime minister involved satirist John Wells, actress Janet Brown and future Spitting Image producer John Lloyd, who in 1979 were teamed up by producer Martin Lewis for the satirical audio album The Iron Lady, which consisted of skits and songs satirising Thatcher's rise to power.

Iron Lady was portrayed by Patricia Hodge in Ian Curteis's long unproduced The Falklands Play and by Andrea Riseborough in the TV film The Long Walk to Finchley.

Iron Lady is the protagonist in two films, played by Lindsay Duncan in Margaret and by Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady, in which she is depicted as suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

Iron Lady is a main character in the fourth season of The Crown, played by Gillian Anderson.

Iron Lady was the first woman entitled to full membership rights as an honorary member of the Carlton Club on becoming Conservative Party leader in 1975.

Iron Lady would be made Lady Thatcher in her own right on her subsequent ennoblement in the House of Lords.