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a national swing of almost 4% towards
the Conservatives and their larger
parliamentary majority of 144,
even though the Conservatives' total
vote fell by almost 700,000.
This is the most recent election where
a party in government increased its
majority.
Thatcher's first four years as prime
minister had not been an easy time.
Unemployment had rocketed in the first
three years of her term as she battled
to control inflation that had ravaged
Britain for most of the 1970s.
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