Word: parliament
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...officials proposed her as their candidate for Dartford, then a safe Labor seat in Kent. Being chosen as a sacrificial lamb is the classic way to begin a career in British politics, and Margaret eagerly accepted. In the 1950 election Margaret, then 24, was the youngest woman running for Parliament. She lost, but Kingsley Wood, then leader of the Tories on the Dartford Council, recalls that "we all knew she was something different. She worked tirelessly and had the knack of remembering everyone's name...
...also in 1950 that Margaret met tall, angular Denis Thatcher, a divorced businessman ten years her senior. They were married a year later. He then worked for a paint company that his family owned, and had run for Parliament himself, also unsuccessfully. More important, Denis Thatcher provided the emotional, financial and social security for her own career. He eventually became an executive director of the Burmah Oil Company before retiring...
...moving into the impersonal family quarters at No. 10 Downing Street, they will keep their Chelsea house. How much of their Chelsea routine can be kept is another matter. Normally, Thatcher is up at 6:30 a.m. to cook Denis' breakfast and do the shopping before heading off for Parliament. She likes sales and takes pride in being a bargain hunter. But time has become so precious that for the past few years she has bought her clothes?usually neatly tailored suits and blouses, often from Marks & Spencer?on twice-a-year bulk-buying sprees. Even the Queen sometimes appears...
...Last Parliament: Labor 307, Conservatives 282, Liberals 14, others 29. New Parliament: Conservatives 339, Labor 268, Liberals 11, others...
...campaigner when he gears up. Canadians, often offended by his intellectual arrogance, were surprised when he singlehandedly turned around the country's mood from one of cynicism to one of confidence. The opposition and Progressive Conservative Party leader at the time was Robert Stanfield, a long-time member of Parliament from Eastern Canada. Stanfield's strategy rested upon a poorly-conceived, loosely-defined economic platform designed to control inflation. Stanfield said he planned to institute wage and price controls--but he didn't explain how he would implement them or how they would work. Trudeau hammered at Stanfield's equivocal...