Margaret Thatcher not shared by others in her Cabinet. She resigned as Prime Minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. In 2013, she died of a stroke in London at the age of 87. Always a controversial figure, she is nonetheless viewed favourably in historical rankings of British prime ministers, and her tenure constituted a realignment towards neoliberal policies in
Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington Margaret Ann Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington, ("née" Callaghan; born 18 November 1939) is a British politician for the Labour Party and former BBC television producer and presenter. Her father was James Callaghan, a Labour politician and Prime Minister, and she was educated at Blackheath High School, Blackheath and Somerville College, Oxford. Between 1965 and 1977 she held production posts within the BBC, working on current affairs and further education television programmes. She then became a journalist on the BBC's prestigious "Panorama" programme, and Thames Television's "This Week" and presented the BBC 2 series