2019 marked the 40th anniversary of the first female Prime Minster in the U.K. to be elected – Margaret Thatcher of the Conservative Party, 4 May 1979. She was re-elected twice in 1983 and 1987.
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Margaret Thatcher worked as a research chemist and scientist after graduation in the 1950s. She was member of a team of developers who made the world’s first soft ice-cream at J. Lyons and Co. in 1956. From then on, ice-cream has been easily dispensable from the ice-cream machine right into the cone.