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Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.97,0:14:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Loved, loathed, never ignored.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.27,0:14:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a generation Margaret Thatcher defined leadership,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.36,0:14:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the world she WAS Britain, at home, she divided a nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.60,0:14:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If all Margaret Thatcher had done was reach number 10, she was guaranteed a place in history
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.79,0:15:02.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the first and so far the last woman Prime Minister.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.19,0:15:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where there discord may we bring harmony, where there is error, may we bring truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.59,0:15:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where there is doubt, may we bring faith."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.12,0:15:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inspired by her beloved father, Margaret had to fight to get on in a man's world,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.32,0:15:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get elected to Parliament, to unseat her party leader Edward Heath,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.38,0:15:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to reach a job even she once thought unobtainable.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.53,0:15:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't think that there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime..."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.98,0:15:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it hadn't been for the "winter of dicontent", a series of strikes that left rubbish on the streets and the dead unburied,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.18,0:15:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she might well have been right
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.44,0:15:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Thatcherite cure: anti-union laws, high interest rates, soaring unemployment,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.24,0:15:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,split even her first cabinet.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.99,0:15:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It drove thousands onto the streets in protest and it led to inner city rioting unseen before in mainland Britain.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.83,0:16:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Calls mounted for the Prime Minister to change course.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.73,0:16:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You turn if you want to, (cheers and laughter) the Lady's not for turning."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.35,0:16:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That resolve was put to the test in 1982, when the Argentine flag was raised on British territory- the Falkland Islands.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.34,0:16:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Against all advice Margaret Thatcher sent a task force 8000 miles to the South Atlantic
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.06,0:16:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and launched a risky and contraversial war.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.23,0:16:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of lives were lost, but victory was secured.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.01,0:16:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nation celebrated the success of its armed forces, and the woman who'd ordered them into battle
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.84,0:16:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who went on to secure a landslide victory at the election which followed.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.82,0:16:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mrs. Thatcher's second term in office took her onto battle at home
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.03,0:16:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was with those she dubbed "the enemy within"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.64,0:16:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-the powerful miner's union, and it's leader Arthur Scargill.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.84,0:16:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We will roll back the years of Thatcherism!"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.66,0:17:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The confrontation between police and strikers left communities scarred,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.87,0:17:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the union defeated, and everyone clear who was running the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.74,0:17:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this was her answer to the threat from without-
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.55,0:17:15.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American cruise missiles based on British soil
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.51,0:17:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to threaten the Soviet Union with mutually assured destruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.54,0:17:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Together, American president Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher confronted what he dubbed the evil empire
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.74,0:17:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while she wooed the Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.07,0:17:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who went on to dismantle communism, to end the cold war with the Iron Lady able to claim victory.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.70,0:17:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Margaret Thatcher went on to win a 3rd historic election victory,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.54,0:17:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be her last.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.61,0:17:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The poll tax enraged middle England,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.07,0:17:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people thought that a dustman and a duke should not have to pay the same for local services.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.74,0:17:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had angered her chancellor Nigel Lawson and his predecessor Geoffrey Howe,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.24,0:18:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they disagreed with her on economic policy and her policy of confrontation with Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.78,0:18:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The president of the commission Mr. Delor said at press conference the other day
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.08,0:18:09.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he wanted the European parliament to be the democratic body of the community
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.89,0:18:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he wanted the commision to be the executive
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.14,0:18:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he wanted the council of ministers to be the senate.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.16,0:18:19.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NO, no, no!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.43,0:18:21.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michael Heseltine was manouvering to replace her
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.59,0:18:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all he needed was an excuse.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.62,0:18:30.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Geoffrey Howe's resignation provided it and his attack on his betrayal by his own team captain.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.13,0:18:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It's rather like sending your opening batsman to the crease only for them to find
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.61,0:18:39.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the moment the first balls are bowled that their bats have been broken before the game
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.85,0:18:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the team captain."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.56,0:18:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A red eyed Margaret Thatcher left Downing Street for last time on the 28 November 1990
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.01,0:18:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having been told by her cabinet that she had to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.35,0:18:55.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They concluded that country had simply had enough
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.51,0:18:59.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.27,0:19:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For years, though people queued up to read and hear her views she was shunned by her own party leadership
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.68,0:19:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of course by labour, who'd loathed her so much.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.77,0:19:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until that is Gordon Brown tried to get some of the old Thatcher magic to rub off on his premiership
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.93,0:19:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the surest sign that even those who'd been her bitter enemies
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.36,0:19:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now saw at least some of the benefits of the Thatcher reveolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.07,0:19:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In failing health, and now alone after the Death of her loyal husband Dennis,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.83,0:19:32.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Margaret Thatcher unveiled her own statue in the House of Commons.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.99,0:19:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She would never speak in public again, but she must have known that for many
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.22,0:19:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she still pointed the way that Britain ought to follow.