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"en.20130415.21.1-217-000"2
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"Mr President, a week ago we lost a great political figure, a woman who achieved the highest office in the land from humble beginnings – in fact, the first elected woman in the western world. Incidentally she achieved that without the need of a quota, something which this House believes so firmly in.
When she took office, the United Kingdom was the sick man of Europe, but her strong policies, handling of the economy and dealing with trade unions – a lesson which the French and Germans still have not learnt in thirty years – transformed the United Kingdom in the 1980s.
The President, Mr Schultz, called her a great European. She did believe in the membership of the European Community and she signed the Single European Act, but when she realised it was getting into a federal Europe and a single currency she said, ‘No, no, no’, and that is why the cowards stabbed her in the back.
From a personal point of view she inspired me into politics. I was ten when she was elected and I met her just three months before I was elected, and when I told her that I was coming here to fight for British independence from the European Union she told me never to give up, never to give up, and I can assure you I will never give up fighting for my country’s independence."@en1
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