Today is the 40th anniversary of a historic moment in British politics - a woman becoming the leader of a major British political party for the first (and last) time.
Margaret Thatcher's career was so remarkable that both her supporters and her enemies often consider her time in No 10 to be the great divide in modern British history. There was the old system, which she swept away, and the new one she ushered into being.
But it's funny how, even as things change, they somehow remain the same. Inspired by the @Thatchersrise project on Twitter, I dug out the leaders in which the Telegraph responded to Thatcher's victory. And the most striking thing was - well, how familiar it all seemed.
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