Margaret Thatcher dies; transformed Britain
LONDON–Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who became one of the most influential global leaders of the postwar period, died on Monday, three decades after her championing of free-market economics and individual choice transformed Britain’s economy and her vigorous foreign policy played a key role in the end of the Cold War.
“It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother, Baroness Thatcher, died peacefully following a stroke this morning,” said Thatcher’s spokesman, Timothy Bell. She was 87.
Queen Elizabeth II and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron immediately issued tributes, with Mr. Cameron saying: “We have lost a great leader, a great prime minister and a great Briton.” Mr. Cameron planned to cut short a trip across Europe and was due to return to London on Monday afternoon.
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