MARGARET THATCHER

13 Oct 1925 - 08 Apr 2013 

An Iron Lady

Agamoni Das
BFT/ 18/ 2350
British Conservative Partypolitician and prime minister
(1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister.
INITIAL CAREER

The daughter of Alfred Roberts, a grocer and

local alderman (and later mayor of Grantham),
and Beatrice Ethel Stephenson, Thatcher
formed an early desire to be a politician. Her
intellectual ability led her to the University of
Oxford.
NOTABLE YEARS

1959 1970

1975 1979
HER VISION

“I decided that the time

had come to strike out
against what I saw as the
erosion of democracy by
centralization and
bureaucracy, and to set out
an alternative view of
Europe’s future”.
HER QUALITIES I
ADMIRE

1. Autocratic leadership

2. Determination

3. Strong relationship building

4. Confidence
CONCLUSION

“Unless we change our ways and our

direction, our greatness as a nation
will soon be a footnote in the history
books, a distant memory of an
offshore island, lost in the mists of
time like Camelot, remembered
kindly for its noble past.”