Conservative Party leader for 15 years, Margaret Hilda Thatcher (born 1925) became the first female prime minister of Great Britain and served in that post from 1979 to 1990, longer than any other British prime minister in the 20th century. Margaret...

In London to determine whether any of the candidates for prime minister has ever committed adultery, I discovered that the sex issue had preceded me. A Conservative member of Parliament had to drop out of the election after pleading guilty to hiring "rent boys"...

Thatcher on Dangerous Ground POLITICS IS like warfare--at least it is in Britain, where the object is not merely to govern but to demolish the enemy. For Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the enemy is, of course, the Labor Party. As a tactician...

Once the scourge of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's governing Labour Party, Britain's famed ex-leader Margaret Thatcher held talks with her successor Thursday _ a meeting greeted with surprise in London's political firmament.Thatcher, dubbed the Iron Lady during her 11-year tenure, pummeled Brown's Labour Party throughout...

Margaret Thatcher inaugurated the Imperial War Museum's Falklands exhibit Tuesday, 25 years after the then-British prime minister repelled Argentina's attempt to take the South Atlantic islands by force.The museum has gathered letters, sketches and memorabilia from survivors and witnesses to the conflict _ a 10-week...

Margaret Thatcher became Great Britain's first woman prime minister in 1979. She also became the longest continually serving prime minister in Parliament at that time, serving until 1990. Despite this length of service, a study of her years in power leads one to argue that Thatcher did not uphold the expectations of a British prime minister.