Imagine you are Margaret Thatcher. Write a letter to President Regan requesting world peace. Mention the treaties to be signed and actions to be taken to build relations with USSR. (Word limit: 100 words)
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Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. She was elected to the position in 1979, having led the Conservative Party since 1975, and won landslide re-elections in 1983 and 1987. She gained intense media attention as Britain's first female prime minister, though she did not make women's issues a priority.
In domestic policy, Thatcher implemented sweeping reforms concerning the affairs of the economy, eventually including the privatisation of most nationalised industries,[2] as well as weakening of trade unions.[3] She emphasised reducing the government's role and letting the marketplace decide in terms of the neoliberal ideas pioneered by Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, promoted by her advisor Keith Joseph, and promulgated by the media as Thatcherism.[4]
In foreign policy, Thatcher decisively defeated Argentina in the Falklands War in 1982. In longer-range terms she worked with Ronald Reagan to wage the second Cold War escalation against Communism. However she also promoted collaboration with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in ending the Cold War.[5]
In her first years she had a deeply divided cabinet. As the leader of the "dry" faction she purged most of the One Nation "wet" Conservatives and took full control.[6] By the late 1980s, however, she had alienated several senior members of her Cabinet with her opposition to greater economic integration into the European Economic Community. She also alienated many Conservative voters and parliamentarians with the imposition of a local poll tax. As her support ebbed away, she was challenged for her leadership and persuaded by Cabinet to withdraw from the second round of voting – ending her eleven-year premiership.
Domestically, Thatcher remains a highly controversial and polarising figure;[7] notwithstanding this, historians and political scientists usually rank her as an above-average prime minister.
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