Margaret Hilda Thatcher20 September 1988
Delivers the Bruges speech criticising centralising tendencies in Europe.
Great Britain · Politics / Conservative Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Delivers the Bruges speech criticising centralising tendencies in Europe.
Loses the Conservative majority in a Brexit-dominated general election.
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