BULLETIN: (UPDATED 10:54 A.M. USA EDT) Baroness Margaret Thatcher has died in London, reportedly of a stroke. She was 87.
A statement from Prime Minister David Cameron:
“As our first woman Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher succeeded against all the odds, and the real thing about Margaret Thatcher is that she didn’t just lead our country, she saved our country. I believe she’ll go down as the greatest British peacetime Prime Minister.”
U.S. President Barack Obama described Thatcher as “one of the great champions of freedom and liberty.”
America, he said in a statement, “has lost a true friend.”
“Here in America, many of us will never forget her standing shoulder to shoulder with President Reagan, reminding the world that we are not simply carried along by the currents of history—we can shape them with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will,” Obama said.
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