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'''Margaret Thatcher''' (neé '''Roberts''') was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] until at least [[1987]].

Margaret Roberts ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'') married [[Denis Thatcher]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ultimate Adventure (audio story)|The Ultimate Adventure]]'') In [[March]] [[1965]], [[Catherine Waverly|Lady Catherine Waverly]] believed that Thatcher, then in opposition, already showed a great deal of promise and [[Toby Kinsella|Sir Toby Kinsella]] predicted that she would make her mark. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt (audio story)|Manhunt]]'')

Thatcher became [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in [[1979]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') succeeding either [[James Callaghan]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)|The Oseidon Adventure]]'') or [[Shirley Williams]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') On [[Saturday]] [[27 September]] [[1980]], she visited [[London Zoo]] with the Chinese Ambassador and the British foreign minister. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime: Child of the New World (novel)|Downtime: Child of the New World]]'')

Thatcher led the [[Conservative Party]] to victory in the general election on [[9 June]] [[1983]] in a landslide over the [[Labour Party]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rat Trap (audio story)|Rat Trap]]'') In [[1984]], [[London Zoo]] had a female [[Tibetan Yeti]] named [[Mahamaya]], which was successfully bred with a male from [[Peking]]. Their offspring was named [[Margaret (Downtime)|Margaret]] after Thatcher, whom she bit at a photocall. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (novelisation)|Downtime]]'') In the same year, the [[Kin (Nothing O'Clock)|Kin]] used Thatcher as a disguise. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing O'Clock (short story)|Nothing O'Clock]]'')

The [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Chris Cwej]] lived for a short time in a housing estate in [[1987]], during her time in power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Damaged Goods (novel)|Damaged Goods]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Damaged Goods (audio story)|Damaged Goods]]'') That year, posters from the ''[[Socialist Worker]]'' read, in block letters, "No Third Term For Thatcher". ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'')

Some time in the late twentieth century, [[Romana II]] met with her to discuss the impending arrival of the [[Krikkit fleet]]. She remembered the Doctor fondly as "[[First Doctor|an outlandish white-haired figure]] who had spent the entire evening insulting civil servants" at a dinner at [[Auderly House]]. To stop the fleet from [[Krikkit]], Thatcher suggested "always moving, never arriving", so Romana used the energy from the world's [[Nuclear bomb|nuclear arsenal]] to freeze the [[Krikkitmen]] in place. She wondered what "[[Ronald Reagan|Ronnie]]" would think of that. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen]]'')

In contrast to her [[India]]n counterpart and contemporary [[Indira Gandhi]], [[Peri Brown]] did not consider Thatcher to be an effective female leader. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eye of the Scorpion (audio story)|The Eye of the Scorpion]]'')