Twenty eight years ago today Margaret Thatcher was elected as Britain's first woman Prime Minister. The 'Iron Lady's' eleven years in power saw big changes in the country's economic, cultural and political life. This report from Adrian Brown:

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When Margaret Thatcher came to power in May nineteen seventy nine, Britain was a very different place to today. The [?] were a political force to be [?] with, government was [?] in everything from generating power to making [?] and many people looked to the to provide their every [?]. Much of that changed during her years in power. She neutered the [?] movement, [?] the privatisation of large swathes of the economy, and encouraged people to take more [?] for their own lives. Much of this was fiercely resisted but is now orthodoxy in Britain.

But she didn't win all the [?]. The National Health Service has been [?] from comprehensive privatisation and a policy of ever [?] government and [?] taxes has been abandoned by her Conservative party. One thing that hasn't changed however is the [?] over Britain's place in [?]. It still divides the Conservatives and could yet be the undoing of Britain's [?] Prime Minister