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How Margaret Thatcher's legacy lives on 50 years after she became Tory leader

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It was 50 years ago this week that Margaret Thatcher became Conservative Party leader.

She won three general elections in the UK and became a major figure on the world stage.

On becoming leader, Mrs Thatcher revolutionised Tory thinking, bringing in radical policies.

She was a workaholic who claimed she only needed four hours sleep a night and hated taking holidays.

Her toughness suggests that Donald Trump would have had a healthy respect for her.

Margaret Thatcher's whole task was to fight the left, says Mr Moore .

But her legacy lives on not just in the Conservative Party , says Moore.

Last year Sir Keir Starmer was criticised by Tory MPs for moving her portrait from the Thatcher Room.

Mr Wilson cultivated a man-of-the-people image, with a pipe, dry wit, Private Eye's Mrs Wilson's Diary .

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