No Ordinary Politician; Margaret Thatcher  

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Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 407 no. 8831 (Apr. 2013), page 23-25.
Topik: Prime Ministers; Politics; Personal Profiles; Economic Policy; International Relations

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Several prime ministers have occupied 10 Downing Street for as long as, or even longer than, Margaret Thatcher. Some have won as many elections--Tony Blair, for one. But Mrs Thatcher (later Lady Thatcher), Britain's only woman prime minister, was the first occupant of Number 10 to become an "-ism" in her lifetime. She left behind a brand of politics and a set of convictions which still resonate, from Warsaw to Santiago to Washington. What were those convictions? The essence of Thatcherism was a strong state and a free economy. For Mrs Thatcher, her system was moral as much as economic. It confronted the "evil" empires of communism and socialism. Many things caused the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but the clarity of Mrs Thatcher's beliefs was a vital factor. Her beliefs were fine-tuned in the political struggles of the 1970s and 1980s. But in effect they changed little from what she imbibed at her home in Grantham, a provincial town in eastern England, where she was born in 1925. The most important influence in her life was her father, Alfred Roberts, who ran the grocer's shop above which she was brought up.

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