LONDON — Margaret Thatcher, the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, became Europe’s first woman prime minister yesterday with the biggest parliamentary majority here in more than a decade.

Britain's Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher with her husband Dennis gives a jubilant wave at her party headquarters on election night in London, May 4, 1979.

Could Margaret Thatcher’s legacy be taken apart by the same force that brought her to power 40 years ago? A sea change brought in the Iron Lady at the 1979 general election. Four decades on from ...

Margaret Thatcher, the unyielding conservative politician who from 1979 to 1990 served as Britain’s first female prime minister – and the 20th century’s longest running – died Monday. She ...

Margaret Thatcher became the first UK female prime minister in 1979; Theresa May is now its second. What has changed for women worldwide since 1979?

Margaret Thatcher, the ‘Iron Lady,’ was sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Britain on May 4, 1979, and became a towering figure in British 20th century politics. During her … ...

I wasn’t the first member of my family to have his views on Margaret Thatcher printed in this newspaper. In May 1979 my elder brother Vic, then 25, made a very shrewd prediction. He warned on ...

Margaret Thatcher, who served as the British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, died this morning at the age of 87 following a stroke. Thatcher is known, of course, for having led a conservative ...

Forty years after Margaret Thatcher’s era-defining election victory in 1979, Britain once again appears divided and ungovernable, with a decision to make.

LONDON -- Now we know why there were no Margaret Thatcher tea cups in 1979. The Iron Lady wouldn't have it. When her media adviser, Gordon Reece, said he had been inundated with requests to lend ...

The Conservative Party has won the general election making Margaret Thatcher Britain's first ever woman prime minister. Mrs Thatcher arrived at Downing Street to take over from James Callaghan ...

Britain's general election in 1979 is without doubt the most significant since 1945, with Margaret Thatcher becoming the country’s first female prime minister on a radical Conservative economic ...