Abstract
Margaret Thatcher became the UK's first woman Prime Minister, and she won two further general elections. However, she became the most unpopular Prime Minister in British history. This text is extracted from 'The Downing Street Years', by Margaret Thatcher in 1995. In this extract she redraws the policy of her three governments, through a propaganda approach. In this text, she doesn't talk about serious problems she caused in the UK (unemployment, over 3 million from 1982 to 1987, manufacturing industries were hit hard, etc.) but she tries to justify herself on her policy opposing the Labour party and the other Conservatives. So, how does this text show that Margaret Thatcher, even though being the emblem of her party through the twentieth century, opposed the Labour party through Thatcherism which appears as liberalism?
