Which of the following resulted in the resignation of the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1990?

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As prime minister, she implemented policies that became known as Thatcherism.

Thatcher was re-elected for a third term with another landslide in 1987, but her subsequent support for the Community Charge ("poll tax") was widely unpopular, and her increasingly Eurosceptic views on the European Community were not shared by others in her cabinet. She resigned as prime minister and party leader in 1990, after a challenge was launched to her leadership. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords.

In 2013, she died of a stroke at the Ritz Hotel, London, at the age of 87.

More Info: en.wikipedia.org

Test your knowledge

What are your thoughts on this subject?

15 Comments

Steve Kemp

Actually, she was defeated over the move to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and opposed to the European Monetary Union - a big difference to integration in the European Union

Louella Wilson

As stated above "her subsequent support for the Community Charge ("poll tax") was widely unpopular". As a result, she lost support within her own party, and resigned before the second leadership ballot of her party was held. She had won the first ballot, but not with a majority.

Harry Stephens

Poll Tax was the main one

Lynne Zeman

I admired The Iron Lady at the time when she was Prime Minister but I was very politically naive at that time. Guess I admired her strength as a woman. I am older and wiser now and was disheartened to see her portrayal in The Crown. I think she believed in what she was doing was right but she wasn't really in tune with the people's needs. But then, I am a yank and really have no place to have an opinion on this.

Barry Crews

A politician with big brass ones! Said what she meant and meant what she said.

Player

Thought it was Poll Tax.

John Cameron

She realized that the move towards the "New World Order" that she had accidentally ratified was a disaster for the UK and tried to back out of it. The UN backed Socialists had Her removed as PM, but luckily for the UK they kept the union jack and the Democracy of their government.

Dena Barrett

Lynne Zeman, she was a racist bigot and a nationalist who wanted to be a dictator. She was as arrogant and anti poor to the point she literally took milk away from hungry children.