Death of The Iron Lady at 87 years old

The former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died today at age 87 of a stroke, his spokesman said today, Lord Bell. "With great sadness Mark and Carol Thatcher announced her mother, Baroness Thatcher, has died peacefully after a stroke this morning," Bell said in a brief statement. The so-called "Iron Lady", the only woman who came to the post of prime minister in the UK and faced Argentina in the Falklands War in 1982, was in power from 1979 to 1990. The current British Prime Minister David Cameron Conservative, located in Madrid, expressed regret on his Twitter account for the death of the former president. "With great sadness I learned of the death of Lady Thatcher. We have lost a great leader," said Cameron. The former head of the British Government, he entered politics in 1959 when elected MP for the constituency of Finchley London, suffered from Alzheimer's and was several years confined to her home in central London. Born Margaret Roberts, Thatcher had a meteoric career after being elected to parliament, which allowed him to reach the leadership of its formation in 1975, when he defeated Edward Heath, the former Conservative prime minister between 1970 and 1974. After winning the general elections in 1979, the policy "Tory" got repeated other two terms, in 1983 and 1987. Born October 13, 1925 in the town of Grantham (northern England), politics "Tory" came from a family of modest means. Thatcher won the election of 1979 at a time when the Labour Party was weakened and the country seemed paralyzed by strikes and the economic crisis. His rise to power was a complete transformation of the United Kingdom to support the privatization of state industries and public transport (trains and buses), reform of the trade unions, which virtually stripped of power, reducing taxes and spending public and labor flexibility.

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