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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is dead of a stroke. She was 87.
Her spokesman Tim 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.”
Thatcher was one of her country’s longest-serving prime ministers, in office from 1979–1990, and the only woman to hold the title. She was inextricable from her conservative politics — including the Falklands War with Argentina as well as her anti-tax and anti-labor positions. “I am not a consensus politician,” she said. “I am a conviction politician.” READ FULL STORY »
