Margaret Tatcher House Of Commons

House of Commons

After leaving the house of Commons, Margaret became the first minister in creat a fundation, that was dissolved in 2005 because of financial difficulties.

In august 1992, Margaret called NATO to stop the Serbian assault on Gorazde and Sarajevo to end the ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War. She compared that situation to “the worst excesses of nazis” and warned that there could be a holocaust.

Margaret made a series of speeches in the Lords criticising the Maastricht Treaty.

In 1998, Thatcher called for the reléase of the Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet when Spain arrested him and tryied to judge him for violating the human rights, because of the help he gave to Britain during the “Malvinas” war. She visited him near Londong, while he was under house arrest. Pinochet was released in March 2000, under medical reasons by the secretary Jack Straw, without facing a trial.

In 2001, Thacter support the Conservative General election campaign. She supported Iain Duncam Smith over Kenneth Clarke.

March 2002, Thatcher’s book “Statcraft: Strategies for a Changing World” was released. It was dedicated to Ronald Reagan, in that book she claimed that there wouldn’t be peace in Middle East until Saddam Hussein was expelled, that Israel must trade land for peace, and that European Union was “fundamentally unreformable”. She argued that Britain should negotiate its terms of memebership or leave EU and join the NAFTA.

From 2003

Tathcher’s husband died on 26 of june 2003. Margaret paid him a tribute in “The Downing Street Years”.

In 2006, Margaret attended to Washington D. C. to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the “September 11 attacks on United Estates”. She was a guest of the vicepresident Dick Cheney.

In 2007, Margaret became the first living prime minister honoured with a statue in the House of Parliament. The bronze statue was presented in front of the House of the Commons in 21 of february 2011. Her speech was “I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do… It won’ rust”.

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