Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher passed away on Monday morning following a stroke. She was 87.
Margaret Thatcher was the ‘first and only’ woman Prime Minister of Britain from 1979 to 1990. A widely admired was popularly known as the ‘Iron Lady’. She had changed the course of Britain’s Politics.
Under her leadership UK had gone through several reforms including reforms at trade unions. She won the war in the Falklands and had taken active role in breaking of the Soviet Union.
Thatcher’s spokesman and former adviser, Lord Bell said, “It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.”
“We’ll never see the like of her again. She was one of the great prime ministers of all times. She transformed people’s lives,” Lord Bell added.
In his tribute British Prime Minister David Cameron said, “It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Lady Thatcher. We have lost a great leader, a great Prime Minister and a great Briton.”
“Margaret Thatcher was one of the defining figures in modern British politics. Whatever side of the political debate you stand on, no one can deny that as Prime Minister she left a unique and lasting imprint on the country she served. She may have divided opinion during her time in politics but everyone will be united today in acknowledging the strength of her personality and the radicalism of her politics. My thoughts are with her family and friends,” Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister said.
