Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime
Studio portrait, c. 1995–96
Thatcher in late 1975
10 Downing Street, c. 1979
2009 photograph of her father's former shop
James Callaghan
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Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is the only person to have he
Margaret Thatcher
…to allow the English to vote in the 1979 referendum on Scottish devolution. Britain's economy during the 1970s was so weak that then Foreign Secretary James Callaghan warned his fellow Labour Cabinet members in 1974 of the possibility of "a breakdown of democracy", telling them: "If I were a young man, I would…
Callaghan in 1977
Callaghan in 1977
Callaghan in 1947
Callaghan (second left) with finance ministers in The Hague, 1966