Last April 8 we had the opportunity to remember Margaret Thatcher’s political acumen and influence five years after her death.

User Clip: Europe segment - Margaret Thatcher's Speech to the Joint Houses of Congress - Capitol Hill, Washington DC, USA - 1985 February 20 Wednesday.

For me, Making Speeches is important because it reminds the reader of a political era when speeches were designed to win, in Mrs Thatcher’s words, the “battle of ideas”.

Margaret Thatcher’s Death On April 8, 2013, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died of a stroke at the five-star Ritz hotel in Piccadilly, London.

He told the audience in Stoke-on-Trent: “The rule of law is the foundation for everything. “Margaret Thatcher called it the ‘first duty of government’ – and she was right.

Margaret Thatcher resuming the Tory conference hours after she was targeted in an IRA bomb attack was like Donald Trump raising his fist after his assassination attempt, her then-principal private ...

Margaret Thatcher 1985 UN speechFebruary 13, 2020 | Clip Of 40th General Assembly This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN. User Clip: Margaret Thatcher 1985 UN speech ...

Margaret Thatcher resuming the Tory conference hours after she was targeted in an IRA bomb attack was like Donald Trump raising his fist after his assassination attempt, her then-principal private ...

Margaret Thatcher had an unrivalled grip on the English language and understood the power of rhetoric to bend the political landscape. This is her life in quotations.