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UK's landmark postwar elections: When Thatcher became the first female prime minister in 1979

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Britain’s upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. Many analysts believe it will be one of the country’s most consequential elections since the end of World War II.

FILE - Britain’s Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher waves to wellwishers as she arrives at 10 Downing Street, London with her husband Denis at right, May 4, 1979. Britain’s upcoming general election on July 4, 2024, is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years.

That consensus was getting increasingly frayed through the 1970s as Britain went into an economic tailspin, with inflation running at postwar highs and trade unions increasingly militant in pursuit of their pay claims.UK’s landmark postwar elections: When Labour ended 13 years of Conservative rule in 1964The May 1979 election took place in the wake of the so-called Winter of Discontent, a huge wave of strikes across industries and public services.

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