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The Iron Lady Becomes Prime Minister, 1979

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After a hard-fought campaign, Margaret Thatcher, from the Conservative party, made history as she became the UK’s first female Prime Minister in 1979. Aged 54, the Iron Lady, who also served as the Secretary of State for Education and Science before assuming leadership of her party, was also given the nickname “Milk Snatcher,” due to the abolition of free milk in schools brought about by her policies. She took up residence in Downing Street right after the Winter of Discontent in Britain, which had numerous public strikes happening while rubbish was strewn about the streets and bodies not even getting buried.

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