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Margaret Thatcher entered the record books as the first female leader of the Conservative Party and as the longest continuously serving Prime Minister in modern British history. She was leader of the party for fifteen years (1975–90) and Prime Minister for eleven-and-a-half (1979–90). We are here concerned with the four years she spent as Leader of the Opposition.
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Norton, P. (2012). Margaret Thatcher, 1975–9. In: Heppell, T. (eds) Leaders of the Opposition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230369009_8
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