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Tories wet, dry, and historic: Lady T. celebrates 80, while today's pols scramble to lead the party.(BRITAIN)(Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Party's leadership elections)
London MARGARET THATCHER's 80thbirthday party on the 13th of October was the last great social occasion of Thatcherism. Attended by the Queen and Prince Philip, Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, many members of the birthday girl's former cabinets, and almost all the luminaries of what in the 1980s was called "The Great Moving Right Show," it was both a glorious party and probably Lady Thatcher's final appearance as the star of a glamorous London event. (Well, as Lady T. herself might say--she being the possessor of a flinty sense of humor--not quite the last occasion.)
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Source: HighBeam Research, Tories wet, dry, and historic: Lady T. celebrates 80, while today's...