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Article: Angel or demon? Maggie rides in.(Features)
- Article from:
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
- Article date:
- May 3, 2008
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Byline: By ANDREW BALDWIN Feature Writer
THE nation woke on May 4, 1979, to find it had Britain's first woman prime minister.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher arrived at Downing Street to take over from James Callaghan after the Tories won an overall majority of 43 seats.
She became a PM who inspired enormous admiration and devotion. She also inspired a social revolution - and intense hatred.
Some say she was the most remarkable woman of the 20th century. Some say she wasn't even a woman. That she wasn't a grocer's daughter but the devil's daughter.
Even the quaint, ...
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