Using the example of a single selected political leader, explore the potential of the 'psychology of leadership' in explaining how the responses, drives and decisions of leaders are influenced by the experiences of their past.
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Using the example of a single selected political leader, explore the potential of the 'psychology of leadership' in explaining how the responses, drives and decisions of leaders are influenced by the experiences of their past. Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1925, the second daughter of a grocer and a dressmaker. Despite this somewhat modest beginning, she would grow up to become the first woman in European history to be elected prime minister, the first British prime minister in the twentieth century to win three consecutive terms, the nation's longest-serving prime minister since 1827 and arguably the most powerful woman on the Earth's surface during her eleven year reign as British Premier. During her time in office, Margaret Thatcher was very much in a minority inside her own party, her agenda was often peculiar to herself, yet she enjoyed remarkable success in pushing through desired legislation, often...

