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Thatcher Government Begins

Great Britain · Politics / Conservative Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1979

Edward Richard George Heath4 May 1979

London · Politics / Conservative Party

Continues in Parliament as Margaret Thatcher forms a Conservative government.

Names involved

Edward Richard George Heath

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