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- <text id=91TT1489>
- <title>
- July 08, 1991: World Notes:Britain
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 08, 1991 Who Are We?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- BRITAIN
- Turning a Lady Into a Lord
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Decked out in a cherry-red suit, Margaret Thatcher rose in the
- House of Commons last week to warn yet again of the perils of a
- European superstate. Prime Minister John Major squirmed on the
- government's front bench, but her commanding performance made
- some other Tories long for the past.
- </p>
- <p> Two days later, Thatcher told the country she was looking
- to the future. After 32 years in the House of Commons, more
- than 11 as Prime Minister, she announced she will not run in
- the general election expected to be called early next year. She
- indicated she was eager to move to the House of Lords.
- </p>
- <p> Her decision should be a relief for Major, who is trying
- to chart his own policy on European integration. He can speed
- Thatcher on her way: if she is to sit in the Lords, he will have
- to ask the Queen to grant her a peerage.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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