NOT FOR TURNING

though margaret thatcher would go onto win the re-election by a landslide, the Iron Lady was convinced she was for the scrapheap when this shot was snapped on the campaign trail. “I have not long to go,” thatcher confided in her close aide, sir john coles, just before the public went to the polls. “my party won’t want me to lead them into the next election and I don’t blame them.” thatcher was the uk’s first female prime minister. 1983